update 11-30

Last day of November!  I am hoping that everyone had a restful and nice Thanksgiving.  Last week, my theme was gratitude.  The kids made a mini-project about what they are thankful for.  Their job was to bring it home and share it for Thanksgiving.  After that, we made holiday cards to donate to a place I found called, "Cards for Hospitalized Kids".  See the link for more information. 

We continue to read informational text and work on those standards.  Skills covered are: main idea and details, cause and effect, summarizing, and finding reasons/evidence.  We read an article from out StoryWorks magazine about dolphins and one man's work filming them to help save them.  The kids seemed to be interested in that.

Today, we read about Tarantulas.  I got a lot of scrunched up faces, but they seemed to enjoy reading about them.  :)

We also are currently working on our Native American Projects.  These are due this Friday.  Kids are typing their paragraph drafts onto a template through the Google Classroom.  They will get one more day in class to work and the rest can be worked on at home.

Later this week, we will be starting a mini-informational writing unit where kids will get to choose a topic of their choice.

I sent an email earlier about our class narratives being published, see below:

Good news! I am almost done putting together our stories and illustrations for the class book we are publishing. Today I sent home with each of your children a flyer that you can fill out if you would like to order one.

Even if you are not interested (which is totally OK),  please still sign the bottom and check the black box on the bottom that says no. I do need all of them returned to send in as a form of consent to publish the stories.

If you have any questions, let me know. I appreciate all of your support! An extra order forms scanned and attached if you need to print one off.

Reminders:
*Reading Counts Points due by 12/8   (I met with each child and made a plan for him/her to follow to meet the goal.)
*Reading Logs are due Friday.  Online ones are optional at this point.