Reading: We have been reading Scholastic News and focusing on the text features. We have also been determinig the main idea and supporting details, and the author's purpose.
A fun new things we have started is Debate it! The students are given a questions and come up with their own opinion from that of the author. The class then has a discussion on how they feel. We discussed using accountable talk to ensure everyone is being respectful. There is a a bulletin board outside our classroom with the newest Debate It question. The students will be posting their opinions on the board during the week.
We had a spelling test this week. Next week we will have a Latin/Greek test.
Writing: The students finished up their deep sea creature writing and foldable. This is always such a fun writing to learn about all these strange creatures.
Grammar: We learned about when to use an apostrophe. There are only 2 times. When the word is a contraction and when a word is possessive. The students then practiced making words possessive. They need to break the habit of putting an apostrophe everytime they add an S to a word!
Projects: We finished up our severe weather projects. They students will be presenting them to the 2nd graders on Monday.
** The class as a whole has been having a problem with behavior since coming back from Christmas. I think part of the problem is everyone is very comfortable in the classroom so they are forgetting to follow the rules. This week I had to be much more strict. Usually if a clip gets moved down to the bottom I send an email to parents, but I let them know ahead of time I was having them move their clips this week just so they could become aware of their behavior. On Tuesday there were a lot of clips moved down but by Thursday there were only 1 or 2. Hopefully by Monday we will be back on track! If you could have a chat with your child about the importance of following the classroom rules and being respectful of others, that would be great!
