Discovering in the Rain

Welcome back from the long weekend!!! I hope you all enjoyed the nice break and were able to watch the game, GO SEAHAWKS!!!!

We also remember this weekend a courageous man, Dr. Martin Luther King. The students were able on Friday to write their own "I have a dream speeches" and today we read Martin's Big Words. We also listened to some of Dr. King's speech and painted pictures on him and a beautiful poem. Ask your child what they have learned so far about Dr. Martin Luther King.

Continent Study: South America We are starting to learn about the continent of South America! We learned about different landmarks, animals, and people from South American. Next we will watched a fun fact/video presentation on the continents of the world and we zoomed in on Africa, our previous continent and our new continent of South America! We will compare and contrasted the continents by shape and size and learned a few facts! If you are interested in coming in to teach our students about South America, please let me know! We’d love to have you.

Readers Workshop This week in readers we talked about the main idea of our texts. We talked about how we identify the main idea by pointing out the fact that a main idea is what our text is MOSTLY about. We looked at titles, heading, pictures, looked at repeated words throughout the text, and talked about how sometimes the main idea of a text can be located in the first or last sentence. Please identify the main idea of a text that you read at home with your student!

Writers Workshop

In writers workshop this week we continued to state our opinion. We watched two 5 minute movie clips and wrote about which one we liked best and stated 3 reasons to support our opinion and restated our opinion again. We also wrote our opinion on our favorite ice cream flavor, following the opinion writing structure of: Statement sentence Reason #1 Reason #2 Reason #3 Restate opinion sentence Practice this at home with your student!

Student of the Week:

Olive is becoming a more independent worker and learner everyday. She is starting to focus on his work and is becoming a persistent learner! She really stepped up this week with her writing. She wrote almost four sentences about which movie she felt was the best and gave great reason’s why. She comes to reading groups ready and excited to learn. Keep up all the hard work Olive!!!!!!!!!!