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Writing Workshop (Gripping Fictional Stories: Bend I, Sessions 3–6): While these are fictional stories, we are using "true" moments as our spark. Students are learning to:

Exaggerate for Effect: Take a real-life problem (like being lost in a store for a minute) and turn it into a high-stakes adventure (being lost for an hour!).

Stretch the Action: Instead of summarizing ("He was scared"), writers are "zooming in" to describe the step-by-step action—like how a character’s hands might shake or how they "gripped the knob and pulled with all their might."

Write in Series: Many students are choosing to keep the same characters across several books, creating a "series" of adventures.

Partner Check-ins: Using writing partners to ask, "What are you picturing right now?" to ensure the story is clear and the tension is high.

Phonics Workshop (Word Builders: Assessment & Sessions 15–16):

Mini-Assessment: We are checking in on our ability to decode and encode multi-syllabic words.

The "Transfer" Challenge: The goal this week isn't just to spell words correctly on a test, but to "audit" our own fiction drafts to make sure our big "mega-words" are spelled accurately in our stories.

The "Drama" Game: Have your child tell you about something that happened today (like losing a pencil). Then, ask them to "fictionalize" it to make it more dramatic.

En clase, los estudiantes leerán los poemas que han escrito en un recital poético dentro del salón. Asimismo, aprenderán en el nuevo taller qué son los libros en serie; identificarán al personaje principal, describirán los lugares y notarán los cambios en el protagonista, además de predecir lo que puede suceder más adelante en la historia. También conocerán palabras clave propias del taller y se les motivará a estar listos para devorar su primer libro de una serie.

En casa pueden recordar que libros han leido, quien era el personaje principal. Hacer una pequeña lista de como se llaman esos libros y los diferentes lugares donde se desarrolló cada historia.

Next week, mathematicians will build place value understanding as they count and organize numbers up to 1,000 using a variety of manipulatives including craft sticks, base ten area pieces and unifix cubes. 

Practice skip counting by 5s, 10s and 100s all the way to a thousand using manipulatives you have at home like beans, corn, cubes, sticks, etc. 

Students will be introduced to our new Social Studies Unit: "Our

Relationship with Rivers". They will understand how people use rivers in

their daily lives?

Students could identify on google map a river they have visited

with their family before.

Students will learn that conversations require verbal and nonverbal communication skills, such as taking turns, listening, and responding, as well as catching ourselves when we interrupt and ignore. 

Take a moment to reflect with your family: Sometimes words and body language don’t match. Why might this happen?