It was wonderful to see so many of you at student led conferences. Hearing the students explain their work to you gives me so many new insights into student learning! It is a really fun way for them to take pride in and ownership of their hard work. If you missed conferences I will send home a number of items with your student on Monday for you to check out. One week until spring break (begins March 26th). Seesaw: I heard many of you mention that you had seen some of your students work on seesaw. If you have not been seeing your students work on seesaw encourage them to post more often by telling them how fun it would be to see more of their work. They can post pictures of activities, copies of assignments, or thoughts about their learning. Permission slip: This week students will bring home a permission slip for a short field trip on April 6th. We will be taking an hour tour of the wave research lab at OSU. Reading For the next 5 weeks in reading we will be working on "Westward Movement" Pockets. These pockets are historical information about Westward expansion in the United States. Students practice reading nonfiction text, answering text based questions, noticing different structures of nonfiction text and summarizing text. This weeks pocket is a big picture overview which discusses the many reasons people migrated to North America and then why they continued to expand Westward. Book Study This week we will begin a new book study. We will be reading Among the Hidden, by Margaret Haddix. Writing In writing this week we continue to work on our expository nonfiction country reports. This week students will learn how to record facts on note cards in an organized manner. Science This week in science we are working on two different projects: -Students will finalize their project questions for their wildlife summit projects. -Students will begin our civil engineering project on Earthquake Safe Design. Dictado (formerly spelling) In case you missed conferences, I am attaching the sheet on Dictado here. Dictado is a new startegy we will be using to practice spelling (and punctuation, capitalization and sentence fluency). This week's dictado is as followed. There were too many children crowding in the elevator. As two more squeezed on, she started to feel panicked. Her eyes squinted, she clenched her fists and let out a yelp of desperation. “Get out, get out, everybody get out!” she screamed. Teaching points: -Too, two, to -Dialogue -panicked (c+k+ed) -qu -Show, not tell writing
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This is a short week of school, but we have a lot going on!
Hoover Updates and Reminders:
Week of kindness: This week we will not of spelling words. Instead we will have small writing assignments for students to complete when they come to class, related to our "week of kindness". We are taking a week to revisit kindness because I have noticed that it is the time of year for this in our classroom. The following will be our writing assignments, followed by mini-lessons on kindness:
Reading In reading this week we will be wrapping up our story elements unit. We will review the story elements in books we read throughout the unit, culminating in a small assessment on Friday, using the book The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. Students also continue to work on their Earthquake Terror projects. Writing This week we continue to work on exploring, writing and growing our curiosity about countries. |
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