This Friday the first bi-weekly progress report will go home that will give parent a quick view of their child's assignment completion and behavior in all subjects every two weeks.
We are finishing up the Beginning of the Year Information Writing Diagnostic Assessment in Language arts this week. As well as taking the Short Vowel VCCV pattern spelling test. The graded test will be sent home Tuesday to be signed by a parent/guardian and returned to school the following day as a homework grade. As soon as I check that the spelling test has been signed it will go back home with the student.
We are beginning Cycle 2 of Reading Unit 1: Expository Text- Jefferson's Bargain, Historical Fiction-Lewis and Clark and Me, Biography-Ellen Ochoa: Space Pioneer
Guiding Question: What is a complex text?
Reading Strategies used: Asking Questions, Monitoring and Clarifying
Concept Vocabulary: territories, experiences, fortune
Spelling: Long a and i pattern
Grammar: Types of Sentence (Imperative, Exclamatory, Interrogative, Declarative)
In Writer's Workshop we will begin using our writer's notebooks to gather sources for our writing. Students will take their writer's notebooks home to record interesting moments they experience or observations. Students will begin the process of writing their own personal narratives and reviewing the writer's workshop process.
Check out from the local library Amelia Writes Again by Marissa Moss and A Writer's Notebook: Unlocking the Writer Within You by Ralph Fletcher. We are using these two texts to teach what is and isn't a writer's notebook. Amelia Writes Again is a good example what writer's can add to their writer's notebooks.
Amelia Write's Again is available to read online as an e-book at the following web address http://www.funbrain.com/books/ameliawritesagain/book.html
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