This was a great week! Students worked hard in language arts and social studies. Here is an overview of what we did:
Reading: Students are well into Independent Reading. They are keeping up with their reading logs and sharing their books with me during conferences. They talk with one another about their books and recommend books to others. We are learning about informational text structures - cause/effect, compare/contrast, sequence, problem/solution, description. We read articles in our Time For Kids magazines and identified with which text structure the author chose to write them. It's important to recognize text structure, as it gives us an idea of how to find the main idea of an article. We also looked at text features - graphs, maps, extra info boxes, photographs, captions - to learn more information about the topic in an article. Writing: Students learned to identify a noun and a verb. It sounds simple, but it's important to learn parts of speech so you can effectively and appropriately place them in a sentence! We developed a draft for an essay titled An Important Recess Rule. We write daily in our writing journals. Social Studies: Students groups presented their commercials advertising a particular region in Texas! The commercials were great, very persuasive, and very inventive! The groups had to come up with a gimmick, a slogan, a poster, and a commercial - they were all great! I think this group of kids just LOVES to act! Through the commercials, we all learned about each of the 4 major Texas regions - Coastal Plains, North Central Plains, Great Plains, and Mountains and Basins. We also greeted a new friend to our classroom - Rusty - a corn snake! He's from the AISD Science Center and will be with us for two weeks!
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