2nd Grade:Almost everybody had papers to share today and I loved listening to them all. Please remember to practice reading your final copy before you come to class. We are officially down to 9 weeks as a second grader, so please try and finish the year strong! Writing is a skill that builds upon itself. These are the hard, foundation building years, but it is worth it! Due Next Week: Please complete Lesson 9 and return with 2 paragraphs about Timid Sheep and Sheepdogs. At home: Please read all of lesson 9. Complete the parts of speech word sort that was glued into their blue spirals. , We folded "Cootie Catchers" to practice our parts of speech. Each child has their own! 3-5th Grade:I think the paper airplanes must have been a success because a lot of the kids could name multiple prepositions and prepositional phrases! Good job, moms! Today in class we reviewed our prepositions, made a foldable "cootie catcher" to review different dress ups, parts of speech, and decorations, and then created a large 3fold piece of paper. This large sheet of white paper is for their Unit 6 paper today. They are to read Lesson 21, create 1 outline for each source text (which is on page 184), then form a topic sentence, fuse the 2 outlines together and then write 1 paragraph! I gave the analogy of a grocery list. When you make a grocery list you write: eggs , milk, bread, yogurt, fruit etc. We don't usually list 20 green bananas, 2 large containers of greek yogurt, one whole wheat bread etc..... I told the class when they are sorting through source texts to write a report, think of a grocery list. Only write down the key facts that will trigger a note to yourself about information. Therefore, only make notes about things that are informative, important, or relevant. This is really hard for kids to filter or sift through information. Please carefully read through all of Lesson 21. If you're student has state testing for ELA (English Language Arts) this is a skill that is required and used on the formal test. Also, it was really neat to see and hear the kids make these cootie catchers! Hilarious to hear how excited some of the boys were about it! It's a great way to build those fine motor skills and practice recalling different parts of speech! It would be fun to have them do it around the dinner table to quiz old siblings and their parents! Due Next Week: 1 final copy paragraph from Lesson 21. We completed Source #1 KWO, but they are to complete source#2 KWO, then form a topic sentence of their own, and then fuse their outlines together into 1 outline in the middle of their large paper. Remember ,not every detail from each outline needs to be included in their fused outline. ONLY fuse information through the funnel/filter of their topic sentence. Comments are closed.
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Kelli HeacockThe Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW) equips teachers and teaching parents with methods and materials which will aid them in training their students to become confident and competent communicators and thinkers. Archives
May 2017
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