Announcements

2/21 – TONIGHT – Daddy/Daughter- Mother/Son Dance

2/24 – Monday – Author Visit

3/2 – 3/6 – Read Across America

Homework

Achieve HW

Writing – As needed- I will email when this comes home.

Reading

In reading this week we finished up our unit on firsthand and secondhand accounts. We reviewed differentiating between the two by sorting pictures of firsthand and second hand documents and artifacts. We also practiced analyzing two accounts of the same event and writing a constructed response. I modeled this last week, they practiced this week, and they completed one independently as their question 21 for their cold read. Next week we will begin learning how to interpret information presented in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, etc.

Writing

In writing this week we began discussing writing to text and the layout will look on the Georgia Milestone. We began with talking about an organizer students could use for their Informational essays that would be easy for them to remember. We talked about our “game plan” for tackling the prompts and key points to make sure they included. The majority of this week was just them watching/listening/participating while I modeled. Next week we will practice together and then they will practice independently. The resources I am using come from the GaDoe website so please feel free to go look at those to reinforce at home. I will begin sending small amounts of writing homework to support class instruction.

Grammar

We continued practicing ordering adjectives. Next week, we will learn a mnemonic device to help them remember the order. J

Social Studies

We are learning about important historical figures. This week we took a closer look at Susan B. Anthony and Harriet Tubman. We will continue to learn about other important historical figures over the next few weeks.