Drinking Water: Bottled or From the Tap?

In Readers' Workshop, students organized their notes with boxes (main ideas) and bullets (supportive facts) to help them think about and understand informational texts.

In Writers' Workshop, we read like writers, noticing characteristics of strong opinion writing.  Students looked for claims, reasons, shocking facts, questions, expert quotes,etc. in an article entitled "Drinking Water: Bottled or From the Tap?".  Below are some snapshots from our mini-lesson.  You'll see students identifying/ marking up the article.

In Word Study, students learned the verb "cite".  They identified examples and non-examples of citing and then generated their own examples.  Ask your child to cite an illustration from Voices in the Park to prove the claim, Smudge is optimistic. 

In Math Workshop, we used multiplication diagrams to help us solve multiplication word problems.

Homework:

• Math homework 
• Multiplication Facts: Practice 0-2 and 5  
• Read 20 minutes 

Reminders:

• Multiplication Fact Quiz (x5): Friday, January 15
• Early Dismissal: Friday, January 15
• No school: Monday, January 18
• Book Fair Project: Due Tuesday, Jan. 19 - Friday, Jan. 22.  A letter outlining the project will come home this Friday.

Classroom Supplies:

• Sticky Notes: Very low
• Pencils
• Pens

Kidblog Link:  

• https://kidblog.org/class/RES11/login

Thank you,

Mrs. O'Neill