Discovering in the Rain

Black History Thank you to everyone who came to Black History Night Celebration. It was so wonderful to see the hard work everyone put into their projects. I know the students loved learning about the different historical figures and especially getting to sing!!!!!

READ ACROSS AMERICA

This Monday, March 3rd Dr. Seuss’s Birthday. His birthday celebration starts the week of reading across the nation as a way to get families, students, and the community to come together to share their love of reading.!!!!!! We will be dedicating this day to some fun reading projects, as well as exploring more of Dr. Seuss in the month of March.




Readers Workshop

This week in readers we reviewed different strategies we can use to figure out tricky words. Not only can we sound them out, we can hop over a word, take a guess, or look for chunks of letters we know! We also made sure to always ask ourselves if what we are reading makes sense, and go back and re-read if it doesn’t. We even used these strategies to uncover a secret message. Please ask your reader what strategies they are using!

Writers Workshop This week for writers, we finished brainstormed ideas for persuasive writing topic. Student’s were able to drive in and start writing their own letters. We learned who to write to, our main audience. We learned how to state our opinion in a polite way, and how to list our reason’s using big feeling words. They ended their letters in kind ways. The students also tried to not just write about things they want but things they want to change. We choose our favorite letter to fix up and publish. Ask your child to read their letters to you.

Student of the Week: Owen!

This week Owen has been working incredible hard on his work plan and challenging himself. He has learn how to set challenging goals for himself and learn how to achieve those goals. All this hard work has paid off, because he has also moved up several reading levels! He has been participating more in our readers/writers discussions. He also gave some really nice complements in our classroom meeting. Way to go OWEN!!!!!