We worked hard this past week finding the theme and figurative language in different stories. Here is what we have coming up this week:

 

We will be practicing making inferences, identifying theme in a fantasy story, and text and graphic features in a graphic novel.

 

In writing we will finish our first draft of our personal narrative.

 

Have a wonderful week, 

 

Marcela Thomas

Hello Families, 

 

We are going to have a busy week ahead of us! 

 

In reading we are going to be disusing Theme, figurative language, and Literary elements such as setting and characters.

 

In writing we will start a writing journal. Students have talked about ideas for their personal narratives and this week they will start writing their ideas and working on a first rough draft.

 

Optional Homework: Students should read 20-30 minutes a day. I am happy to recommend books that meet your child's independent reading level.

Hello Families, 

 We have survived the first week of school! Students worked hard on team building activities and we have started our first ELA unit.

 

Our essential question in Unit 1 is: What makes a character Interesting? Friday we read "Zach Jumps In!" and talked about character traits. Students did a great job reading our story and coming up with traits for our character map.

 

This upcoming week we will read "Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match" and discuss making predictions and literary elements (character, setting, plot, and events). In grammar, we will explore the subject and predicate of a sentence and discuss sentence fragments. 

 

On Thursday we will be taking our ELA Map test.

 

Optional but recommended homework: Students are recommended to read 20-30 minutes a day. This can be the student reading the whole time or a mix between them reading part of the time and then having a story read to them.  This can be any book of their choosing. If you would like recommendations for books that meet your individual child's independent reading level, please email me! I have lots of recommendations!

 

Have a wonderful week, 

Marcela Thomas