Reading
In
reading this week we completed our second round of literacy centers! Our
centers included students comparing and contrasting historical people of the
American Revolution, US Weekly crosswords, a synonym matching game,
mult-meaning task cards, conferencing with teacher on talking to text, and
read-to-self to apply talking to text strategy. It was a busy week we but we
got it all in! Next week students will complete 1-10 of the cold read, Monday,
as a formative grade. Then Wednesday they will complete 11-20 of the cold read
as a summative grade. This is the last week I will be breaking the cold reads
into two parts. Starting at the beginning of the second nine weeks students
will take complete questions 1-20 in one setting. This is how they took their
cold read assessments in third grade and how they will take them in fifth grade
as well.
Writing
In
writing this week we finished writing the middle section of our narrative rough
drafts. I modeled our class narrative and we specifically discussed the use of
sensory words/details, use of dialogue, word choice awareness, and use of
transitions. Next week we will begin to work on the conclusions of our rough
drafts and then continue to look for places to add sensory details and MEANINGFUL
dialogue.
Grammar
In
grammar this week we discussed complete subjects/complete predicates,
fragments, complete sentences. Next week we will learn about run-on sentences
and continue to review the basic parts of speech.
Social Studies
In
social studies this week we began learning about the important people of the
American Revolution. Students received their graphic organizers and we started
with Ben Franklin. They will have this in their DOG books daily so you can
review this with them if you would like (so there won’t be so much to do before
the test J
). Next week we will continue to review the people and the accomplishments they
made in the colonists move towards independence.
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