WORD WORKEvery week begins with small group word work. This is a time for students to discover, discuss, and work with word spelling patterns, prefixes, suffixes, syllabication, homonyms, homophones, vocabulary and much more! Students then work independently and with partners throughout the week on sorting and spelling activities. Every child is encouraged to complete several sorts at home throughout the week. If you need a list of these activities, let me know. I have lots of extra copies! FIGURATIVE LANGUAGEFigurative language has been a focus over the last couple weeks in our class and we will continue to notice, analyze, and use these literary devices to comprehend what we read and communicate clearly in our writing and speaking! Students collected examples they found in their reading and posted them to share! CLOSE READINGStudents work on their close reading skills every week. It is so exciting to see them using the strategies and skills they have been taught. I so enjoy the great conversations we have in both small groups and as a whole class. NEWSELA is my new favorite tool for non-fiction reading! Students sign in, check out the articles I assign in the class binder, and then can adjust the Lexile level so that the reading is leveled just for them! Fridays are a great time to group students by the articles they chose to read throughout the week. Below, students are doing work with vocabulary, determining important take-aways, discussing questions they have about the reading, discussing text structure, and using the article content to further understand how organisms interact with their environment. Life ScienceChanges in an organism’s environment are sometimes beneficial to its survival and sometimes harmful. Students have been doing a lot of important work so that they can understand and defend the statement above! Part of our work is shown below: MID-YEAR ReminderI was visiting Mrs. Williams the other day and saw the sign below posted in her room. I love it. It's important that kids understand that success in area requires time, effort, practice, and many times…failure first. So, I snapped a photo and we had a great discussion at the beginning of last week. Thanks, Mrs. Williams for the GREAT reminder!
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Molly MacDonald
2/15/2014 12:57:31 am
Such great pics! There are doing very cool stuff and its fun to see ;-) Thanks!
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Amy
2/15/2014 03:51:09 am
Love the Pete's Pond Mural. Great Project!
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