Due September 18

Finish reading Sarah, Plain and Tall, read a chapter orally to a family member.

Bring new novel Skylark to class, we will begin reading it together.

Choose a WILD FLOWER to become an "expert" on. 

Options:

*find and print a picture from a website

*find a picture in a book and bring it to class

*draw a detailed picture of the flower

Write down details about the flower you choose and create a "Save the Wildflowers" poster to share with the class.

http://www.nps.gov/plants/cw  (celebrating wildflowers)

http://www.lib.ksu.edu/wildflowers/  (Kansas City Wildflowers)

Continue with your Pioneer Life research, we will probably begin those speeches on the 25th of September.

Have a great week!

Homework for this week, due Sept. 11

Read the assigned chapters in Sarah, Plain and Tall. Don't forget to read one or more orally to someone in your family.

Create a Want Ad.

Bring your 2 descriptive words that describe you.

Choose your Picture book, practice reading it, and bring it to read to the class next week.

*More details for these assignments are on the handout I gave you in class.

Have a great week!

Speech Assignment #3

Your third assignment for our Speech class will be to choose something about Pioneer Life, research it, then present it to the class. Some possible options are: Pioneer food and Pioneer toys.  You will need to spend time researching and find something you are interested in, write a speech explaining what you found, and have a visual aid to show the class.     An example is:  if you research a toy from the Pioneer times, make the toy and bring it to show the class, part of you speech should involve making the toy. You will also need to give the class information on who played with the toy (age, boys, girls, etc), what was needed to make the toy, etc.  Your speech/demonstration should be 3 to 4 minutes long. Spend time practicing your speech and demonstration in front of different groups of people, a mirror, etc. This will help make you less nervous!! :-)

Pioneer Life

Please take time to look at this ThinkQuest about Pioneer Life. It will give you some great background information on that time period.

http://library.thinkquest.org/J001587/

(you will need to copy and paste the link in your browser)

Welcome

Welcome to our BLOG for 5th and 6th Literature and Speech. I hope to use this as a tool to keep both parents and students up to date on our assignments. I will try to keep an ongoing list of the assigned reading as well as details on projects and due dates.

Feel free to email me with any questions.

Mrs. Wells