Run Fox Run

All students from grades 1-6 ran their little hearts out at the Terry Fox Run at Dovercourt today. It was a lovely sunny day and perfect to be outside together. The grade 6 students will miss going to Dovercourt to do the Terry Fox Run next year.

We have been doing ECLIPSE almost every day. Today was a great day in ECLIPSE. One friend was having trouble because she didn't feel like reading. Some of us helped her with great advice. Here it is:

What To Do If You Don't Feel Like Reading:

1. Find the most interesting book that you have in your Book Box
2. If you don't feel like reading a lot of words, pick a book where you can read the pictures
3. If you don't feel like reading, pick a book that you have already read and re-read it
4. Try to have a book in your Book Box that you will always feel like reading

The advice was great and it really helped the student out. She ended up reading a picture book that we had already read in class and also looked at a book about animals that had a lot of pictures with good captions.

In ECLIPSE, we also reviewed Text Busting. In Text Busting you figure out the following about the text you are reading:

1. Genre
2. Purpose
3. Target Audience
4. Message/Big Idea/Moral/Main Idea
5. Evidence: 3 pieces of evidence to support the main idea
6. Summary: Somebody Wanted But So Then

Hop on Edmodo tonight and keep us in the loop about that thing that we talked about. You know what I mean.