Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Text Features

The different text structures are cause and effect,compare and contrast,sequence,problem and solution and description.

Text Features

Headings
BOLD PRINT
Italics
ALL IN CAPS
Graphic Features
Pictures
Diagrams
Boxes

Functional Text 5

1.The text is organized because you can find a lot of different ceremonial origami.

2.The purpose is to inform.

3.The graphic and text features are the words that are in ink.

Friday, March 9, 2012

How to Make Salt Dough

For practice with functional text, the students made salt dough to celebrate finishing 3rd Quarter Galileo.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Preparing For The Phoenix Art Museum

Dawn Uscher, from the Phoenix Art Museum, came to prepare the class. They learned vocabulary words like:
2D
3D
Docent
Lines
Color
Texture
Shape
They also got practice in looking at art and sharing their opinions. They were reminded to respect each others opinions.