This Week in ELA

This week has gone by SO fast....

• Monday:
• We finished and turned in our PBA's and collected homework, and passed out the new packet.   Then we looked at the unit slides to go over expectations, new vocabulary words, and the end product PBA for our next unit (Unit 4) on Explorers.   We did lesson 4.1 from ReadyGen.  We ended the period with our first HIV Lesson.
• Tuesday:
• Tuesday was picture day so it took up a good 1/2 of our day to get downstairs and get the individual and class photos taken.  The rest of the period we worked on portfolios, independent reading, and small group work.
• Wednesday:
• We continued with our study into our new book HUDSON and did lesson 4.2 from ReadyGen.  The big focus here is opinion writing and learning how to start an opinion response and how to use text details to support your opinion.  Students had a quick write were they had to "pick a side" and write their opinion.  
• Thursday:  
• We continued our study from the new book HUDSON and did lesson 4.3 from ReadyGen.   The focus was looking how the author chooses words and organization techniques to support her opinion about Hudson (He was not a failure and deserves to be remembered in history!) We finished by reading "A Wrinkle In Time" from our class read aloud. 
• Friday:
• Today was a STAR testing day to get updated reading levels for students.  Then we had visitors from Turn to Us who came in and did a presentation on Bullying.  Students broke up into groups and had to read, write, present, and then act out different information and scenarios about Bullying.  They had a great time.  We finished by reading "A Wrinkle In Time" from our class read aloud.