Announcements
RED RIBBON WEEK!
Monday – Wear a RED shirt
with uniform bottoms
Tuesday
– Wear your TACKIEST outfit
Wednesday
– Wear ORANGE
& BLACK – Happy HALLOWEEN
Thursday
– Student Council Costume Day
Friday
– Wear your favorite SPORTS TEAM SHIRT/COLORS
Homework
· Achieve3000
– We will
take a break from this November/December unless I see individual needs
· ELA spiral
review
Reading
In
reading this week we learned about main idea and supporting details. We talked
about ways to determine the main idea of passages like: read the title, read the
first and last sentence, look at photographs/captions, read subheadings, and
ask yourself “what is this MAINLY about?” We read both Reading Wonders stories
this week and completed graphic organizers together, with partners, and
independently. Then I gave students a craft activity to complete Thursday. I am
usually hesitant to give activities like this because it causes a lot of
chatter and less engaged work time BUT you could have heard a pin drop! They
were ON IT and the finished products reflected the standard, integrated science
(solar system), and they looked great! Students took a formative assessment over
main idea today and I will pull those students Monday/Tuesday and then they
will take the cold read over main idea Wednesday.
Writing
In
writing we discussed adding sensory details to our narratives. I gave them work
time to come up with sentences to go with their “seeds” and then we looked at
anchor charts to go deeper and make those even better. For example, their
sensory sentences should be more “show, don’t tell” so there shouldn’t be a lot
of pronouns and they should not actually use the sensory word they are
describing in the sentence. Figurative language should be included and word
choice should be bold!
We
also looked at effective usage of dialogue in our narratives. Students came up
with only a few sentences that they felt they could include in their stories
that would flow. We did not want to “force” anything just for the sake of
putting in dialogue. Next week we will begin editing and revising! I am hoping
to wrap these up and put a nice little bow on these SOON! J
Grammar
We
continued looking at sentences, fragments, and run-ons. We just continued
practicing how to correct fragments and run-ons with commas, conjunctions, and
even semicolons. Next week we will do some fun grammar Halloween centers
Thursday!
Social Studies
We
WILL get through the major battles next week! J (fingers crossed!)
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