All year we've been learning many writing strategies to apply to our writing, and now it's time to bring our realistic fiction stories to fruition. We are working hard to write powerful endings, edit our work, and publish our stories into beautiful finished projects. These will be ready to share with you at conferences!
In the last two weeks we've begun to study regions of the United States. To kick off this unit we watched a YouTube video called "Tour the States." The video is AMAZING! A man draws the entire US (with capitals and symbols to represent each state) set to music. Here is the link in case you'd like to watch! https://youtu.be/_E2CNZIlVIg
Mrs. Cain worked with PTA to arrange for a special presentation from the Science Museum of MN. 4th and 5th grade's presentation focused on engineer and how engineers continually work through problem solving processes to address everyday problems. Thank you to Mrs. Cain and our fabulous PTA for making this event happen!!!
Newsela is an online newspaper designed and written for students. We spent a few minutes a week ago exploring the site, choosing articles to read, and writing a summary and reflection.
Over the next few weeks as we study the regions we will be analyzing our reading to determine key information and then categorizing this information as shown above. During our reading I'll also work with students on strategies for note taking and creating graphic sketches (quick drawings packed with meaning).
On Friday we had SEVEN kiddos gone! Yikes! We took advantage of the afternoon to tackle some classroom needs. A group of students volunteered to reorganize our classroom library, another group moved and reorganized our classroom games, and a third group handled prepping book orders. I love their willingness to help and the ownership they have in our classroom. My name may be on the door, but it's THEIR classroom!!!
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