We are in the homestretch and finishing up units in ELA for some and working on our writing in others. 5th grade was participating in Battle of the Books today we wish them luck and can not wait to hear how they did! 4th-6th graders are headed on their class voted field trip on Tuesday, April 30th. They wrote persuasive essays this past summer and Jaclyn in 6th grades essay won! We will be headed to Snapology and can not wait to share our experience with everyone. Enjoy the sunshine this weekend!
ELA Update: 2nd Grade: Students worked on reading and creating puns this week. We also began our final project of using all our language understandings to create their own Secret Languages. I will be sure to post their final projects when they are done. 3rd Grade: We are working on understanding the purpose as well as new persuasive strategies to aid the writing they are doing for Ms. Woomer. This week we worked together to use the writing process to write a paper on why we need a lunchroom at our school. 4th Grade: We are diving into reading and writing fiction stories inspired by real events. Students are looking at how every story element in a fiction or personal narrative serves a main purpose to aid the theme and moral of the story. We have been looking at evidence of this in common stories they have read. Next week we will begin applying this to their own writing. 5th Grade: Our Grammar Study has begun and the students have been having the best conversations. It is a new approach to studying grammar. The goals are to create an enlightened enthusiasm for the study of ideas in language (different than memorizing). We want to bring attention to the most introspective and human aspects of grammar. We focus on reading, thinking, and reflecting as we study. It's been awesome! 6th Grade: We are continuing to read, study, adn reflect types of literature they do not tend to read. This week we focused on folktales and their characteristics. We compared and contrasted Japanese Folktales to Chinese Folktales.
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