Friday, October 20, 2017

BATS,BATS,BATS

This week we jumped into researching!  I modeled for students how to find important information in in non-fiction text.  We used a can, have, are graphic organizer to record our information.  We gathered information from 3 different books about bats.  The kids really enjoyed learning about bats. After gathering our facts we worked on writing a simple report on bats.  Students had to write a topic sentence, include 3 bat facts and a closing sentence in their reports.  I modeled how to do this and students applied to their report.  The reports will be hanging in our classroom.



In math we are continuing to learn lots of strategies for addition, however we are starting to work with double digits.  For some students this is a challenge.  All students need to be able to count by 10's starting from any number.  For example 34, 44, 54, 64.  If you child struggles with this please practice this at home.

In writing we are starting to work on personal narratives.  We read a story called The Leaving Morning, it is a story about a family moving.  This example was a great model.  We brainstormed events from our own lives that we could use as topics for our own personal narratives.  We will have many mini lessons over the next few weeks as we work on personal narratives.

This week in Social Studies we explored features of Urban, Rural, and Suburban communities. We will finish this unit up next week.