update 10-11

Next week is the last week of the first quarter!  I can't believe it!  This week, students self-selected a topic to read and learn more about from the choices of:  pollution, eclipses, and climate change.  They read articles with the purpose of reading for causes and effects.  We used Google Classroom to take notes on these topics.  Book projects are due next Thursday, 10/19.

We continue to focus on main idea, vocabulary, text structure, summarizing and looking for details.  Using our informational books, we looked for VIPs or very important points to remember.  This helped us stay focused and remember what the books were about.  See the sample below.

In Google Classroom, we took notes this week which the kids loved.  Check out this sample too and ask your child which topic they learned about.

This week, we also had a day where students self-selected skills they wanted to work on based on some independent work comple

ted in class.  After working on the skill, they had to share with the class what they learned.  We ended with students writing reflections in their notebooks.  See sample whiteboards below.

Reflection: