Mission Reports/Project Have Been Handed Out!

Today we finished up our Mission booklets.  I am so glad that they are DONE!!

What is a Mission Booklet?  It's a piece of large construction paper folded in half with this cover on top.  The clip art came from free images on Google.

Inside the little booklet I have the kids stick a Mission Map of our state of CA.  It's from images on Google.

Then the kids added 7 binder pages behind the map in their booklets and we wrote facts from the below website, each mission using 1/2 of the page (4 missions total per page front and back).

California Missions Resource Center

I love using this website because it has so much information, but it also has a slideshow with "real life" pictures about each mission.  Everyday for the past 21 school days the kids have written about the mission of the day and then we would watch the slideshow together.  On the map we write the mission #.

Now today we finished, and it was time to pass out the official 4th grade Mission Report and Project.  I pass it out at this point in time since so many families travel to the missions over the holiday break.  The project and report are not due until the end of January for my class.

  I uploaded the pages to TPT in case you want to check them out.  

The above is the link to the 3 page Report and Project.

This is the grade sheet I use.

It's completely free since I know every classroom is different with this project and people will probably only download to get ideas for their own classrooms.  I hope it helps!

2 days to go...

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Cereal Box Book Report

There have been many projects going on in my classroom as we ended the First Trimester.

Above is one of my talented students with her Cereal Box Book Report.  When I switched to 4th grade, I spent that summer going through a ton of websites looking for "fun" activities to do to enrich the curriculum.  I ran across the idea for a Cereal Box Book Report at Mrs. Pearce's Class Website.

*Updated to add that the link that I had doesn't work for her website, so I found the templates free to download on the blog below. 

Here are the templates that I found on Room 10's blog.  It's a free download.

Basically here's the idea...

I send home a little explanation note to the parents and I give them a month to work on the project in case they need time to read a larger chapter book.  I have them choose a fiction book (since our Spring Book Report is a non-fiction/Biographical).

*Front of the box: Include the name of the cereal and a picture. Invent a name for the cereal that is related to the title of the book and sounds like a cereal. Do not use the exact title of the book.

*Back of the box - Students need to design a game that is based on the story. It can be a puzzle, a word search, a word scramble, a maze, a crossword puzzle, a hidden pictures illustration, or any other fun activity that might be found on the back of a cereal box. Make sure it includes information from the book.

*Left side of the box:  Students have to write a summary of their book.

*Top of the box: Students need to write the name of the book, the author, number of pages, and they must give the book a rating.  

*Right side of the box:  Students need to write the "ingredients" of their book - the characters and setting.

*Prize: Cereal boxes often include a prize. Your prize must be something the main character could have used in the book or something that reminds you of the main character. You can even include a picture of the prize on the front of your box to let the reader know what is inside the box. 

Now, my students also had to give an oral presentation for when they came up front to share their cereal.  Over the years I have seen a bunch of very creative "commercials".  

I hope this helps someone!  

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