It seems in preparation for a Halloween at school, for the first time in a long time, that our classroom is full of crawling critters: namely, crayfish and Bess Beetles. I was sort of a crawling critter last week, as I was out with a bad cold for two days. If there is anything I missed in that time, which I have forgotten to respond to, please let me know. (Reminder that Halloween is a "sports spirit day".)
Important, school wide reminders:
Spelling Words this week: This week’s list is vocabulary from our recent reading unit:
Reading In reading this week we continue with our study of expository text but we are beginning a new unit which focuses on questioning. In this unit students practice asking and answering questions about nonfiction texts. Writing: Personal Narrative We have wrapped up our first writing unit which was all about students becoming part of a writing community, writing freely in a way that interests them and using the writing process to publish a piece of writing. We will now begin a writing unit in which we focus on the personal narrative genre. Particularly students will publish personal narratives about their name. We will read a number of examples of authors writing creatively about their names and the names of characters and use these examples to craft our own personal name narratives. If you haven't talked to your student in the past about the story or history of their name this would be a great time to start!. Science This week we continue our study of structures and functions with the structure and functions of Bess Beetle anatomy. By the end of the week we will compare this crayfish anatomy as we wrap up our structures and functions unit.
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