Working Hard!

Reading: We have all finished our first book club books! I am really pleased with how hard the students worked to get these finished. This week, we will take a word work vocabulary quiz and finish writing our summaries from our book clubs. We will start a new book club on Wednesday. Students will be assigned new book club groups. I have done some reflecting with my book clubs and I learned a lot with this first book club. I have been working hard at making sure the next book club is more organized and I am sure the students will enjoy the next book. They are all reading Stuart Little. They will read this everyday in Daily 5 with their groups or by themselves, answer the questions and review them with their groups. 

Writing: We have continued to learn and review language standards to better help our writing skills. Next week, 5th grade will start their very first narrative. This will be a slow process, as I want to model every step to them before they do the steps to ensure they understand and know what is expected of them.

Projects: All students have been working hard at this very first project. We are going to be done with this project this week. This has been a tough project as students are learning how to take notes on a T Chart ( informal outline) and they are learning how to do their very own research. They have been transferring their work into paragraphs and have been revising and editing with their groups.

Also, thank you to everyone that donated for the auctions, they were a success! We will have these twice every quarter, so about every 4-5 weeks. If you did not get a chance to donate this week, feel free to send in items anytime as our next auction will be in a few weeks.:)

I hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Here are some pictures from PE this week courtesy of Mrs. McAllister :)