November+Observation

Introduction: We are going to work on our writing today. We are going to use our senses to make our writing come alive. Is this story alive?;

I went to on a field trip. I saw some things. We had fun. It was a good trip.

By using our senses, we can make this story very descriptive and tell people about our trip so that if feels alive to them and they can imagine what we did.

To start with we will watch a short video telling us about our senses.

1. Show video: This is a video on the five senses. Show and then discuss how we are going to use these to make our writing better. @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWPJoI5lMOY&feature=related

2. Pull up power point page and use the interactive whiteboard to list the five senses.

Powerpoint five senses slide

3. Break into groups. Use our trip to Common Ground High School to brainstorm ideas using the five senses. Students will list ideas and each group will come up with one good sentence to add to our paragraph. see- hear- taste- smell- feel-

4. Put the sentences together. Write a sample paragraph together.

5. As time permits, students will then go to the tables/computers/ whiteboard to brainstorm ideas for writing about Thanksgiving. Students will use their senses to write ideas about Thanksgiving Dinner.