1st Week

Monday is picture day!Your child has their order form in their binder.  


We had a great first week!! If you haven't turned in all of your paperwork, please send it in with your child ASAP.  Also, please remember to turn in your family scrapbook page.  The kids love looking at eachother's pages and sharing our book with their family. 

Reading: This week we are working on Read to Self and building stamina. The goal is to work up to 20 minutes.  We will be there in no time!  We also worked on Plot Structure.  We focused on exposition.  

Writing:  I want to know where the students are with their writing.  This week they wrote an opinion writing and they started a narative.  We will finish the narative writing on Monday.

Grammar: In order to review nouns, the students were each given a kind of noun (person, place, thing or idea).  They were not told why they were given their card just that they had to figure out who was in their group. It took a few minutes but once someone figured it out it was fun to watch them work together to get everyone into the correct group.  The groups then each made a noun poster.

Projects: This week we focused on Tribes and our Tribes agreements. We did some fun activities to help us build a strong classroom community.

Misc.  The students will all need headphones this year. If you could please send in a pair of headphones in a ziplock bag with your child's name on it that would be great. There is no hurry just as soon as it is convienent for you.