WOW! I heard kids exclaiming today, "It's Friday already? This has been a short week!" I feel the same. This first quarter is flying by. We have a pet snake, Rusty, from the Science Center! I'm sure your child has told you about him. You can see a video of him molting on my twitter MrsDawson4!
In READING, we just finished a unit on informational text, focusing on text structure and text features. We've also been finding main idea in our reading. Students have been READING WILDLY! Their reading logs are growing every day, which is wonderful to see. I try to conference with students weekly, and it's been fun and enriching to hear what they think about their books. This week we started stations in reading, which we will continuously modify. Next week we begin a genre study on biography. In WRITING, we learned about the simple subject and simple predicate of a sentence. We wrote 2 word sentences about school! Example: Pencils sharpen. Clocks tick. Bells ring. Then we expanded our 2 word sentences, keeping the subject and simple predicate (otherwise known as the verb) together while adding descriptive words. We also wrote our first kernel essays. These are structured pieces that we can later expand upon to create an entire essay. In SOCIAL STUDIES, we started reading about Paleoamericans. We will continue that next week as we begin to study the Native American cultures in Texas. Please look for a conference sign up email coming to you this weekend!
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