Second Week! Feb 9-13

Feb 9 2015

There may have been some talk about the action figures I had on my desk:

Especially Xaltotun, who looks pretty creepy.

But then we started in on the news, with a little look at the Grammy Awards.

Here is a winner's list:

And I don't know if we agreed with the list of winners, however, then:

we started working on the skill of using excellent DESCRIPTIVE words that come into our minds when we look at photos, especially photos from the news.

We try to make a complete list of different descriptions that occur to us.

We know they need to be descriptive words, and that means we don't just list things we see in the photos.

Yes, we see a cute cat:

Okay, well maybe it's not so cute.

But we see it, and instead of saying - There is a cat! - we think about how it looks, what it sounds like, what it might feel like, smell like, etc.

The five senses are the guide here, of course.

We will build up our abilities to find the details in photos and think about how to pull out those awesome descriptive words and then:

There will be a challenge!

We will get a photo and we will work together as a class to create a fat, beautiful, complete list of the best words to describe what we're seeing.

And we will do it THIS WEEK!

Stay tuned...