Writing From A Word

In Readers' Workshop, students learned a visualization and inferring strategy, "Leaning In".  Periodically when we read, we press pause on our mental movie and lean in really close to the character to help us visualize the setting, the character's body language, etc.  This visualization then helps us make inferences about how characters feel on the inside.

In Writers' Workshop, students learned to "write from a word".  This strategy helps us build on writing stamina; it aims to encourage students to write for long periods of time, regardless if they get off topic (see below).  We simply want them writing.  Ask your child what word they wrote about, how much they wrote, for how long.

In Math Workshop, students used regrouping to help them accurately subtract.

In Word Study, we It's Hard To Be A Verb.  This text demonstrated one of our EAGER Beaver traits, "engage".  Ask you child what the main character was frequently engaging in.

Homework:

• Math homework (due tomorrow)
• Read 20 minutes 
  

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Mrs. O'Neill