A Productive Few Days!
Week #20 January 22-25, 2019

We may have only had 4 days together, but we accomplished a lot!  We completed important tasks in writing, math and reading.

We are published authors!  We created our final products of our non-fiction books for our publishing party on Monday.  Students creatively chose their writing type, cover and illustrations to finalize either their chapter book, how-to book or question/answer book.  Students also had an opportunity to peer conference and shares "2 stars and a wish" with their partner's book.  Students also met with me to write an elaboration craft for their final book; students chose to include a tip, a glossary or a fun fact.  We look forward to sharing our work not only with our class, but with the writers in Mrs. Belisle's class on Monday.

We completed a district-wide, mid-year summative math assessment.  Students were so focused and careful during this time that I called Mrs. Bailey while they were working to share how impressive they were!  Students paced themselves and worked on this for 3 math periods as well as spent time on their Math Menu tasks.

This week reading workshop featured using our reader's notebooks to document the beginning, middle and end of our books or chapters.  We practiced this with our shared text entitled, The Race before completing this with our own texts.  Students also read independently this week, and with me to complete a winter reading text level assessment.

And, of course, we were productive as aeronautical engineers and pilots!  Thank you to Mr. Coon for teaching us how to fold 3 different types of paper airplanes for our Marky Mark celebration!

Other things to ask your child about this week:
*reading a political map of the US
*sampling spaghetti squash with Miss Meg
*putting together puzzles of the US
*winter Olympics in PE
*our last coding class with Mrs. Springer

Enjoy the weekend!
Mrs. Hock