T.W.A.S.

T.W.A.S. #9

Dec 6-11

This week at school we had buddies. First we read Christmas books to our buddies ,    then we did a scavenger hunt looking for Christmas items. In school we are writing Christmas comic strips, the comic strips are about Santa’s reindeer are sick, on strike or on vacation and Santa has to use different animals. In math we did skip counting by 5, 10, 25 and 100 for numbers between 0-1000. This week we started our door decorating, banana is the code word for ELF ON THE SHELF. We think were going to win.

By K. (and H. and A.)

Teacher add-in:

Students were read two sample stories of Santa replacing his reindeer with other animals (“Who Will Guide My Sleigh Tonight?” and “Dinosaur Christmas”.  They brainstormed their own list of animals and why they wouldn’t be able to pull the sleigh.  We then used books from the library (and student’s homes) that showed us how to draw animals step-by-step.  We discussed how our comics would be assessed, focusing on our ideas, conventions (spelling and grammar) and illustrations.  Students are working on their good copies and we are looking forward to sharing these in the future!

 Ms. Rutland

	Limited (1)	Basic (2)	Good (3)	Excellent (4)
Ideas	- not complete - copying	- same ideas repeated - one sentence - introduction and conclusion are there	- different ideas - some longer sentences - some speech bubbles - a couple ideas are repeated - good introduction and conclusion	- interesting reasons (makes you laugh) - speech bubbles - creative introduction and conclusion - juicy descriptive wordsv cv
Conventions (spelling and punctuation)	- no punctuation - can’t read it - lots of spelling mistakes	- some spelling mistakes - some missing punctuation	- most words spelled correctly - most of the punctuation is there	-0-2 spelling mistakes - punctuation
Illustrations (pictures)	- pencil drawings - no pictures	- little messy - stick men, stick animals - few colours	- neat pictures - coloured - some extra details	- detailed pictures - background - “extra” details - different colours - very neat