Reading: We continue our work with informational text this week. The two big skills we covered are learning how to annotate plus main idea and details. This week, are focus was on animals. Each group learned about either sharks, ants, wolves, or pandas the first half of the week. Today and into the rest of the week, kids are reading and learning about Gray Whales, Birds of Flight, Life in the Sea, and Plants/Animals of Antarctica. Not only did kids engage in conversation with each other about their books, but they also learned to Jigsaw. Jigsaw means to teach others about your topic. The pictures below show us teaching and sharing about what we read. Since we are reading informational text in class, your child should be reading 20 minutes each day at home of their choice book.
Writing: We continued to work on our expert writing pieces. Yesterday, we learned what elaboration means and tried it in our writing. Also, we talked about the difference between run-ons and fragments. Our goal is to write detailed sentences that clearly share our thoughts. We completed these on Google Classroom. Ask your child what he/she wrote about! Our next writing pieces will focus on using informational text and more than one source.
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