Students work in teams and enter symbols on map to indicate their answers. Each day the teacher pulls out a question, reads it aloud, and posts it on the bulletin board. Students each have a recording sheet on which to write their answers. At the end of each afternoon, students and teacher discuss the right answer and students, have the opportunity to self-correct their records. Creative Writing Enrichment session.
Teacher lists the responses on the board as they are being given.
Students select a situation from the board list to write a story about a hypothetical day in town. They need to incorporate a certain number of places in their story, for instance, five buildings and five streets. Scale of miles. Teacher introduces this skill and students, practice with an activity sheet and a map of the city. Using the school as the starting point, students work with a partner to find places that are a half mile, one mile, and two miles away.