This week, we will focus our comprehension strategy of making connections on text to text connections. The skill of making text to text connections requires the reader to link two different texts and describe how they connect to each other. This week we will model this strategy using the texts Amazing Grace and Oliver Button is a Sissy. Students will be asked in orally discuss how the texts are alike as well as put their ideas in writing.
In Writer's Workshop, we will continue working on describing the setting. This week, we will practice this skill by writing a descriptive setting about the beach. Students will also be asked to independently transfer and apply this skill over to their Writer's Workshop personal narratives. We will also look at periods, exclamation marks, and question marks.
We will finish up with Unit Two this week in math. We will have our assessment on Wednesday. Our last lessons of Unit 2 will be Tuesday and we will also review the unit content in preparation for the assessment at that time. Unit 3 will begin on Thursday. Unit Three will focus on place value, money and time. This week, our lessons will focus on place value in two and three digit numbers.
In social studies we will discuss goods and services. Students will be asked to create a service and an advertisement to promote their service.
Today, the RazKids login information will be stapled inside the yellow homework folders. At this point, the account is live and running. You may sign in and use the account starting today. RazKids can be used as the nightly reading requirement and can be recorded on the reading log. Of course, RazKids does not have to substitute for reading literature at home. Either type of reading may be used for the weekly reading log. Please see the previous blog post for additional information about RazKids.
We have started using our IPAD as a component for Daily Five in the Listen to Reading/Read to Self category. Scholastic has a great new app called Storia that we have been using the classroom. If you would like, you may send in a set of personal headphones for your child for to keep in his or her cubby and use when he or she is using the IPAD or computer programs in the classroom.
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