Update 8-30

Capture the Flag started today!  The kids are excited and seem to enjoy the book.  Homework will be given based on the book on weekdays, for Fridays their will be no Capture the Flag homework.  Tuesday we read the book, The Flag Maker together to tell about the history of the star spangled banner flag.  A letter went home today and was emailed with details about Capture the Flag.

We have been doing goal setting in writing and reading.  See a sample below.

Also, the big push is that Reading is Thinking.  We practice that daily.  Post-it notes are used to show our thoughts along with our readers' notebooks.  Check out the post-its below.  Prior to this, we reviewed the parts of fiction through mini-lessons and connected them to our choice books.