Our Writer's Workshop focused on storytelling this week. We talked about planning, writing and revising our stories. We are working hard to write "Small Moment" stories and include lots of descriptive words and details about our small moments that help the readers of our writing really visualize our stories.
Our Reader's Workshop is busy with many different activities. We are spending time in Guided Reading Groups, writing in our Response Journals, and practicing reading alone and with partners. During this time some of us practice our fluency with adult volunteers, some of us go to the library to do activities with Mrs. Matthews and some of us read to a couple of 5th graders who join us every Thursday and Friday to help us grow as readers. Eventually this will also become a time when our 5th grade helpers will work with everyone on a rotating basis to create blog posts on our individual blogs. This week our mini-lessons focused on comprehension skills. We learned about visualizing, main ideas and details. We practice the skills we learn about in mini-lessons when we read and write in our response journals during our quiet reading time.
We continue to learn about digraphs (sh, ck ch, th, wh) in Fundations. We have been practicing writing words with digraphs and have also been practicing writing sentences that begin with a capital letter and end with punctuation.
This week's homework will not be due for two weeks due to the short week students will be having next week. I am asking students to choose six things from the homework that went home today rather than the usual three that they are usually asked to do to make up for the two week time frame. `I have been enjoying seeing the creative things that are coming in for homework. Those projects create a real window for me to get to know your children better.
I hope everyone has a terrific weekend and I look forward to meeting with all of you on Monday and Tuesday!
:)Deb
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