This past week I was able to meet with all of my groups, although our schedule was interrupted from various meetings I attended throughout the week. I hope that this upcoming week will provide a more stable schedule. I will be at an all day meeting on Thursday and will have a substitute, but all of my groups will still be meeting.
1st Grade - We spent last week getting to know each other and practived writing about ourselves. We read The Best Part of Me and I Like Myself to give us ideas to write about. Because I did not work with these students last year, it gave me an opportunity to get to know students' strengths and weaknesses and areas to focus on. I will be differentiating the focus for students based on their needs so you may be seeing that students are working on different things.
2nd Grade - We continued working on story elements and question words. This upcoming week, we will be investigating characters, events, and the effect that certain events may have on characters.
3rd Grade - We have been working on finishing our first narrative. Students organized their writing into three paragraphs this week and included an interesting hook and ending for their writing. This week, we will be working on making sure that our sentences are complete in our writing. We will also be continuing working on simple and compound sentences.
4th/5th Grade - Last week, we continued to work on making inferences for character traits while we read. We will be finishing up inferences and will begin looking at text features that authors use in nonfiction books.
1st Grade - We spent last week getting to know each other and practived writing about ourselves. We read The Best Part of Me and I Like Myself to give us ideas to write about. Because I did not work with these students last year, it gave me an opportunity to get to know students' strengths and weaknesses and areas to focus on. I will be differentiating the focus for students based on their needs so you may be seeing that students are working on different things.
2nd Grade - We continued working on story elements and question words. This upcoming week, we will be investigating characters, events, and the effect that certain events may have on characters.
3rd Grade - We have been working on finishing our first narrative. Students organized their writing into three paragraphs this week and included an interesting hook and ending for their writing. This week, we will be working on making sure that our sentences are complete in our writing. We will also be continuing working on simple and compound sentences.
4th/5th Grade - Last week, we continued to work on making inferences for character traits while we read. We will be finishing up inferences and will begin looking at text features that authors use in nonfiction books.