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I wanted to share with you that students worked very hard on their candidate profiles. They produced factual, well cited and thoughtful profiles. Students had fun reading each others profiles and voting anonymously, on Monday. During this project and after the election students used very respectful language to discuss the candidates and to express disappointment or happiness. I shared this compliment with the students this week and I wanted to pass it on to you. (Students candidate profiles are graded and will come home this week. ) Reading This past week students selected a chapter book for their book commercial. They are working hard to read these books by the end of November. You may see them reading this book at home. Please, ask your student about what book they selected and how their reading is progressing. As students read they take small chapter notes as well as take notes of setting, character traits, plot, point of view, and clues to the author's message. This week we will continue to work on our skills at identifying and describing character traits, including our ability to justify/give evidence for character traits. Students are working on this as a whole class, individually and in small groups. Writing We have launched into our fiction story writing unit in the past two weeks. Students began drafting a fiction story that they will continue to develop throughout the unit. Please, ask your students what their fiction story is about. Questions about characters, setting, events and dialogue are all welcome. As students write their stories I plan to meet with each one of them to help give their stories shape, elaboration and story elements. You can also check in with your student and see if they have met with me yet. Social Studies Students are in teams (based on table group) in our United States of America social studies competition. This week they received a resource to help them study the state capitals. Since the teams cooperated so well they were able to "unlock" a new resource (a map) to study the location of each state. They will continue to study in their teams until our big competition. Science This week we will dive further into "how the earth changes" with weathering and erosion stations. We will be discussing the different forms of weathering, such as mechanical and chemical, as well as observing the processes that can cause erosion.
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