Informational Research

    Only two weeks before Thanksgiving break! 

    We have just begun to research exotic, unique animals. Students will be gathering information from websites and books on a specific animal.They will learn how to take notes and to develop focused paragraphs. The plan is to have the draft done before the break. 

   The previous two weeks were spent developing a strong informational paragraph. I met with students individually and provided guidance on their development of interesting hooks,topic sentences, transitions, grouping of ideas for subtopics, and wrap around conclusions. This will be a craft grade in parentvue. The students will bring the writing piece home by Friday.

     There is spelling this week!Please remember to sign the spelling sheet to indicate that you have viewed it. We continue to identify simple, compound, and complex sentences. Students have anchor charts with examples, last week's & this week's practice sheets, that should be reviewed. I have modeled identifying subordinating conjunctions, dependent and independent clauses as strategies.

      Our unit in reading continues to be identifying text structure. Students are close reading to identify key words to support the structure being modeled in the passages. They are completing organizers for the given structure. Please continue to review the anchor chart and packet modeling "soccer" as the topic.

     In math, students are applying box method and partial products to solve multiplication equations. We have begun word problem questions. There will be a test by the end of the week. Then we will move into division.

     Next Friday is our field trip to the Cobb Youth Museum!