update 9-6

We are getting close to being halfway finished with Capture the Flag.  Ask your child who they think stole the flag!  The kids have been sharing some interesting theories.

We took a poll and here are the results as of right now.

This week in writing, we started a compare and contrast essay about one of the main characters and ourselves making sure to look deeply at character traits.  Tomorrow, we will finish with a focus on elaboration and giving evidence along with structuring our writing so it makes sense to the reader.  Check out the writing on Google Classroom!

In class, we have been collecting interesting words from Capture the Flag to teach each other and recording them in our notebooks.  See a sample below:

Strategies are also a big focus this year in class.  We brainstormed strategies to help us answer questions for an assessment that is hung in the classroom.  Today, we took our first formative (weekly ten) and the kids had to reflect and record one strategy they used.