Unknown Words!

In Readers' Workshop, students practiced identifying unknown words and using the sentences around said words to determine their possible meanings.  This is a crucial comprehension strategy that helps readers understand, think, and infer while they read.  Tonight while your child is reading, ask them to identify an unknown word and then ask them what they think that word probably means based on the sentences around it.

In Writers' Workshop, students learned another pre-writing strategy to help them generate ideas when they cannot think of anything to write about.  These pre-writing strategies help all authors when deciding on ideas. We will really start digging into our Personal Narrative Unit of Study tomorrow; Picture Day ran into our math and writing time.

In Math Workshop, students were introduced to a "high level task" one in which they have to go through many steps with their teammates in order to solve the real world problem and then organize and represent their findings in a meaningful way.

In Word Study, students looked closely at their Word Study words.  They then underlined the CVC's in each word (if applicable) to help them identify which types of words you double the last letter prior to adding a suffix.

In Read Aloud, students compared characters using the matrix to help them make claims about said characters and grow ideas about relationships.

In Social Studies, student noticed and noted properties of the national, state, and community governments. They then used their notes to compare similarities and differences between the governments.

Homework:

• Read 20 minutes  

Reminders:

• Parent/ Guardian Permission forms due.
• Blog permission slip due

Thank you,

Ms. Smith