Wednesday in ELA

The kids had a pretty good day in ELA today, but unfortunately the entire third lunch group got in trouble for their behavior during lunch.  In order for us to go on trips, we have to know that our students will behave.   Please talk to your child and remind them that how they act in school is very important and this type of behavior will not be permitted.  I would hate to have to leave students at school from a trip because they couldn't behave.  If I see there are students who are at risk, I will ask their parents to chaperone.

After reading from our class read aloud "Mrs. Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" we moved onto lesson 6.  We discussed the previous chapters, talked about main ideas, and started making connection to real world events and how they affected the character.    Finally, we read Chapter 6 and then worked in small groups to do the independent activity which focused on cause and effect.

In writing I continued to model how to read an article and to take organized notes by categories. I printed the notes out (we did four articles on polar bears and came up with 2 pages of notes).    In the story we are reading "Rachel Carson"... Rachel had 1000 sources for her book.  I told them we only did 4 and look, 2 pages of notes.  Imagine how many pages Rachel had for her book!  Next steps are to use those notes to start working with Non-Fiction writing.

Homework:

• READING:  30-45 minutes of Silent Reading 
• ELA:  Verb Tense practice - Past Perfect
• Writing - Look over POLAR BEAR notes