Hello Everyone! Happy Valentine's Day! I hope you all have had a great week and weekend filled with lots of love! ❤
One thing I love is being your child's teacher. I couldn't imagine doing anything else and am so happy that I get to spend this crazy, unique year with them!
Remember, NO SCHOOL TOMORROW (2/15/21)
A message from Student Council:
It’s a Penny War!
Student Council is sponsoring a Penny War from February 16th-19th to raise money for Pillars Warming Shelter. Students can bring in pennies to earn points for their own class and silver coins to subtract points from other classes.
Curriculum Update:
Reading: We've begun our Interpreting Characters unit! The students are so happy to be back in fiction! Our goals are to increase our reading volume, use previse words and text evidence when studying characters, and identify theme(s) throughout our books. This unit will allow us to read books in partnerships and book clubs!
Writing: We've begun our new unit in writing as well! "Choose Your Own Adventure" is what we are calling it! Last week students choose which genre: Narrative, Informational, or Opinion. This will be their first writing that they begin the unit with. Our minilessons focus on things that apply to all genres, but majority of the teaching will happen in small groups as I conference and teach each group techniques that are genre-specific. Our goals for the unit are to transfer what we know about structure and elaboration of different genres, strengthen our understanding of the writing process, live more of a writerly life, and understand how truly useful a mentor text can be!
Word Study: We are wrapping up Unit 8 and will be taking the test this week!
Content: We have begun working on our new unit - Earth's Processes and Systems. The students seem to really enjoy this unit and I am very excited by how the discussions have been going as we examine the topics within this unit!
Please let me know if you have any questions! Have an amazing week! 🤩
Carly Burris
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