1st GradeSo far, we have discussed houses that people live in and how they are the same or different. This week, we will be looking at other animals that need houses and what kind of houses they live in. We will continue using compare and contrast words like "and" and "but". | 3rd GradeLast week, we focused a lot of our time on prepositions of location and movement. Continue to practice using these correctly. Here are two games that can help you practice: Preposition Basketball Preposition Place This week, we will look at text features that can help make nonfiction texts easier to understand. Labels, headings, photographs, captions, and diagrams tell us information in an easy to understand way. We will be using text features as we begin our new nonfiction text, "Deserts." | 4th & 5th GradeLast week, we finished up writing our informational paragraphs about Insta-Snow. Check out our writing in the "Our Work" section! This week, we will be working on pre-reading strategies to read "Hello, Fish!" which is is a nonfiction, informational text about fish that live in coral reefs. We will review and discuss text features in a nonfiction text and how they help us understand what we read. Go to the "Resources" section to review text features. |
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