Boots

In Readers' Workshop, students read an article on baby sea turtles.  They noticed that the text was mostly explaining the life cycle of a baby sea turtle.  We used this text to help us explain the chronological and order text structure.  Students are considering text structure when developing insights about main ideas and author perspective.  

In Writers' Workshop, students used "reasoning starters" to help them begin explaining how their evidence supports their claim.  Students then worked independently or in pairs to apply our mini lesson and write their body paragraphs.  Most students are either arguing their opinion about their favorite holiday or video game.

In Math Workshop, students explored and defined characteristics of quadrilaterals; polygons with four sides.  Students' Unit 4 Assessment is coming home today.  Please review, sign and return by Friday.

In Word Study, some students worked in their letter-pattern group while others explored our read aloud, Holes.  They found unknown words, determined their meaning using context clues and comprehension strategies, and then created a Frayer Model to explain and define their unknown word. 

Homework:

• Multiplication Facts: Practice 0-2, 3, 5, 10 
• Read 20 minutes 

Reminders:

• Unit 4 Assessment due back Friday, February 5. 
• Multiplication Quiz: x3 and x10 this Friday.
• Recess:
• Boots:  Students who bring boots are allowed to go in the field.  It's not necessary that your child brings boots as students can still play on the basketball court. 
• If the temperature is above 32F, we will try to go outside.  Please continue to send students to school with cold weather wear (winter coats, mittens, hats, etc.).  I will only take students out if our whole class is appropriately dressed.  We don't want anyone getting sick :).  Thank you for your support!

Classroom Supplies:

• Sticky Notes: Very low

Kidblog Link:  

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

Thank you,

Mrs. O'Neill