PJ and Movie Party!

The class has earned its first thirty stars for the year and has chosen a PJ and movie party.  We will have our party at the end of the day on Wednesday.  Your child may bring a pillow, a stuffed animal, and a snack for the party (no peanuts, tree nuts, or eggs).  The class may also bring in rated G films and we will watch one of them.  Great job, 4-1!

BEAR FOLDER- Novel Project

Once your child is finished reading their Award Winning Novel they need to complete two things:

1.  They need to write a summary about the book and submit it on Edmodo.  It needs to be at least ten sentences describing the beginning, middle and end of the story.

2.  They need to complete the project.  For this novel, they need to research about the award that the novel they selected one.  They need to identify what qualities a novel needs in order to win this specific award and then decide if they think their should have won this award and why.  There is a form in the back of their BEAR folder for them to fill out.

BEAR folders and projects are due Thursday, October 24th.

OUR DYNAMIC EARTH

We have been learning about rivers and how they change over time.  We are now starting to learn about rocks and how there are different hardness.  We are learning about erosion, deposition, and abrasion.  Here are pictures of some of the experiments we conducted this week.

SAY CHEESE!

Thursday, October 3rd is picture day.  The forms went home today.  Please make sure that you send the form back by October 3rd if you would like pictures of your child.  Thanks!

BEAR FOLDER

All the students should be reading 100 minutes per week in their BEAR folders and recording it on their monthly calendar.  At home, your child can read whatever genre of literature they want for their minutes, however, they will have an assignment of reading at least one award winning book during these 6 weeks.  Your child needs to submit the title of their award winning book on Edmodo.  This book could have any type of award, not just the Newberry.  Once they have finished reading the book, there is a project for them to complete.  This will be due the end of October.

CARAVAN ASSESSMENT

We are almost finished with our project-based assessment.  The students are pretending to be travel coordinators for a famous person or famous sports team and they are creating a travel itinerary for their person(s) to visit.

MONITORING COMPREHENSION

During Reading, we have been learning about how when you are reading, it is important to have an inner conversation with yourself.  This inner conversation helps you monitor your comprehension as you read.  We discussed how as you read, you should be asking questions and making connections to ensure you understand the text.  Then we talked about strategies that they can use when they lose their way in a text.  We created a list of strategies to use including reread, read on, etc.