Language

Our current unit for December will be focusing on:

Reading: Looking at the reading skill "Visualizing". How can readers see the picture of a book in their mind. Can they use their senses to imagine themselves in the book? We will continue working on finding evidence and clues in texts that support our predictions, connections and comprehension questions

Writing: Description paragraphs on people, places and things. We are continuing learning about the writing process and how writers constantly make revisions and edits to their writing to make it their very best work. We are looking at more interesting ways to write words (e.g., instead of saying "It is cool." how can we make it more exciting?)

Our past unit for September/October will be focusing on:

Reading: talking about good fit books, building reading stamina, making connections and predictions with books we read, beginning our Guided Reading with Ms. Buttle

Writing: building writing stamina, writing juicy sentences, beginning to edit our work (looking for capital letters, finger spaces, punctuation). We will be learning how to write recounts and retell stories.

Oral communication: actively listening and responding to others ideas

Themes: We are focusing on "Growth Mindset", "the Power of Yet" and the Learning Skills (Collaboration, Independent Work, Organization, Responsibility, Self-Regulation, Initiative)

Our past unit for November will be focusing on:

Reading: finding evidence and clues in texts that support our predictions, connections and comprehension questions

Writing: finishing our unit on writing recounts. We are also learning about the writing process and how writers constantly make revisions and edits to their writing to make it their very best work.

Media Literacy: creating media texts that are meant to inform/teach. Learning about how knowing our audience changes how we produce media texts