Chess Tournament

Today was a bit of a wrap-up day.  We began with students reviewing some of our morning Jumpstart topics and playing these Greek and Latin Roots review games to prepare for our Jumpstart Review Quiz.
https://www.sugarcane.com/games/greek-and-latin-prefix-matching

https://www.sugarcane.com/games/greek-and-latin-roots-matching

https://www.sugarcane.com/games/greek-and-latin-suffix-matching

Next we finished finding our body areas and spent some time reflecting on our strategies.

Our Jacob's Ladder focus today was on the literary elements, making inferences, and identifying the theme of Langston Hughes's poem "The City".

Students got to spend a little time exploring some of their passion "sparks" on Thrively, and then we finished our chess sketchbooks by filling in our information on the history and movement of the king and queen.  Students who scored a 90% or better on our chess quiz are now able to check off all parts of the first leg of our Medieval Times Project!

To celebrate a great year so far, we played a class chess tournament putting all our new skills into action!