Class Books

This week we finished reading Harriet Tubman Wanted: Dead or Alive.  We really enjoyed this book!  Here's a little peek at our compound word book we made.  Students selected a compound word from the story and then used the word in a sentence about the story.  We have great artists in our class!  Students have also enjoyed looking at books made by previous classes.  It's fun to see pictures that siblings made years ago!

Word Splashes

This week I will be introducing Word Splashes to one reading group.  The whole class will get to do them, but we are starting with small groups first.

Word Splashes are used as a prereading activity to introduce vocabulary and to make predictions about the story. 

A few other charts that we'll be using this week are: 

• KWLS Chart (Know, Wonder, Learned and Search)
• On Target Questions Chart (Writing questions)
• Fact and Opinion T-chart 

Here are the 2 Word Splashes we will be using this week.  Can you guess the topics?

A to Z Reading Homework

There will not be A to Z book homework this week.  We will continue with it next week.

Students should be working on reading fluency with this book.  This is a 3-day assignment.

Character Traits

This is one of my favorite projects after learning about character traits.  Students had to select 3 traits and support the traits with evidence.  These pictures show so much personality!