update 9-27

This week, we have moved into informational reading!  Today, we brainstormed all the things that good readers do when reading informational to try to understand it.  Below is what we came up with:

Kids are self-selecting information text on a wide variety of topics to read about.  We read one Monday and today they selected another.  Ask your child what he/she is learning!  The kids also had the opportunity to teach each today about their topics.  It was a great experience for them.

Last week in writing, we did some comparing and contrasting.  We analyzed our writing using different colors to show the different parts.  Once done with this, we reflected on the writing.  The kids wrote compliments to themselves along with suggestions as what could be done differently the next time.  I will pull those out and hand them back before writing our next compare/contrast piece.  See the sample ideas below:



We also started some informational writing.  The kids had to choose some topics that they were experts in and knew a lot about in order to tell someone about it.  Those were started in Google Classroom and will be worked on Friday as well online.  It was amazing to see all the different things our classes know about!

All students did practice and perform idiom plays.  Pictures are below- I forgot to put them on the last update.  Enjoy!