It was a pleasure meeting with you all during conferences to touch base on the amazing work students in 4P are doing this year. I feel lucky to have such hard working yet fun loving students this year! Here's a quick update on happenings in the classroom as we move toward the end of October: Reading Workshop: I shared your child's summative reading assessment from our first reading unit (realistic fiction) during conferences. We also celebrated the end of the unit by carving soap creations in honor of the main character in our mentor text, Rob (see pictures below). Starting this week, we are moving on to our non-fiction reading unit studying extreme weather in research groups. Students will work together to research and present information (presentation) about extreme weathe topics such as hurricanes, tornados, etc. During the unit, students will be learning important non-fiction reading skills such as identifying the text structure of a text, summarizing and synthesizing information. Writing Worskshop: We finished up our realistic fiction stories and will shortly be moving on to personal essays....students will be coming up with a thesis and supporting reasons all about something they care about. Science: We had fun learning about why leaves change color in the fall and hopefully many of you got to see our leaf rubbing display in the hallway during conferences. We will be sprinkling in topical science lessons in the coming months before launching into our Energy unit. Announcement from Ms. Stringham: ELLY SWARTZ AUTHOR VISIT: On Monday, November 13th, the 3rd-5th graders have an amazing opportunity to meet the author, Elly Swartz! Her brand new book, Hidden Truths, comes out next week. If you would like to order a signed, personalized copy of her book for your child, you can purchase the book here! Thanks so much for supporting the Hatch Library and every child's love of reading! Soap carving photos below:
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