Week 15 Newsletter

Announcements

11/22- Friday – Turkey Trot

11/25 – 11/29 – Thanksgiving Break!

Homework

Will give individual HW as needed for now

Reading

In reading this week we continued Point of View (POV). Together we continued to read paired passages from the same event and discuss how we could identify the POV. We also looked deeper into the passages and discussed questions we had from the passage that gave us limited third person perspective. We talked about when the POV is in third person the reader often has questions about why the character is doing, feeling, or saying certain things throughout the story. However, when we read the next passage from a first person POV students were able to see how all their questions were answered throughout the reading. We were able to feel like were in the story as opposed to being an outsider. We also took time to look at pictures and photographs from different perspectives and talked about the other possible points of views. Thursday students took a formative assessment where they simply read short paragraphs and determined the POV, and then today they took their cold read. Next week we will finish up POV with writing constructed responses.

We are also continuing to read Scar as our read aloud and discussing how the POV impacts how information is delivered to the reader. J

ELA

In grammar this week we reviewed similes and metaphors. This is review from second and third grade so we didn’t have to spend a lot of time on this. We reviewed some Smartboards and talked about pictures that showed both types of figurative language. Students came up with their own similes and metaphors for the pictures using “like” or “as” for similes and “is” for metaphors. We also were able to play a Kahoot! Game this week…which was a HIT! J

Students are still finishing up the publishing stage of their narrative pieces. Next week we will begin writing a poem from the POV of the turkey J  

Social Studies

We reviewed in Social Studies this week we reviewed the Revolutionary War and completed a USATestPrep assignment online. Next week we will look at the Declaration of Independence. J

ONE MORE WEEK!!!!! WE CAN DO IT! J J J

Week 14 Newsletter

Announcements

11/11 – Monday – Veterans Day – NO SCHOOL!

11/13 – Wednesday – Progress Reports

Homework

Reading Skills Review

Reading

In reading this week we began our Point of View (POV) unit. First we watched the Flocabulary, which is one of my favorites J, filled in our graphic organizers and glued in our interactive notebooks. We discussed the advantages and disadvantages of both 1^st and 3^rd person POV. I was also able to relate it back to our class read aloud, Scar. Later, we read stories on the same topic but in different POVs together as a whole group and discussed how we decided the POV and how it impacts the story. Then students were given another set of stories and got with a partner to read and fill out graphic organizers. Next week we will continue with POV.

We will continue to review text structure and main idea through.

Writing

We are finally finishing up our personal narratives and have started publishing…yahoo! We will begin our next narrative about a Thanksgiving Turkey that will also integrate POV. J

Grammar

Next week we will revisit similes and metaphors. We will discuss the difference between the two and practice identifying these types of figurative language in our reading, as well as, practicing how to include it in our writing.

We will continue to review sentence structure and parts of speech.

Social Studies

In Social Studies this week we finished up the battles of the American Revolution! YAHOO!!! We will be moving onto the important documents such as: The Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Constitution, and Bill of Rights.