Moving on to Love That Dog
Announcements:
Reading 20 minutes each night Monday-Thursday
Friday: NO READING
Social Studies:
English Language Arts:
We have completed our study of how to have a great heart literally! This week we will be starting a new book titled Love That Dog. This book introduces what it means to have a great heart, figuratively, through poetry! Throughout our study of Love That Dog, we will also be working with other poems such as "The Red Wheelbarrow", "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", "The Tiger", "The Pasture", and much more. Not only will we see characteristics of having a great heart figuratively, but we will also be learning about what a poem is, how to write poems, and how words can be put together strategically in order to create multiple meanings. I am excited about starting this new book in class and I hope the kids are too!
Poetry, being very different from the prose we are used to, we have added some new pages about prose and poetry in our reading notebooks. By the end of the week, all students should understand the different characteristics of both prose and poetry as well as how to identify it in their reading.
Grammar:
Because we are dealing with poetry, our focus is going to be on the ordering of adjectives. Our learning goal for this week is as follows: Evaluate writing for vivid use and the correct order of adjectives.
Social Studies: Primary and Secondary Sources
We will be adding the concept of primary and secondary sources into your reading notebooks. Students will be watching the video posted below, identifying examples of primary and secondary sources, discussing the importance of both, and deciding when it is appropriate to use each type of source.
- October 3: 2-hour delay
- October 12: End of Quarter 1
- October 12: NO CLASSES
Reading 20 minutes each night Monday-Thursday
Friday: NO READING
- My students and I have an agreement that if I am not doing anything over the weekend, they will not have any homework. They know if I expect them to read 20 minutes, I am doing the same at home. Due to a family wedding, I am following through with our agreement and have given them the weekend off of reading. I will not be doing any work this weekend so I am not requiring it of them either. You are more than welcome to have them read on your own but I am not requiring their reading log to be signed.
Social Studies:
- Next week we will be having a quiz on map skills, directions, and human versus natural features. Students have completed and corrected a study guide during E&I so please have them study it. They will be bringing it home to study Thursday evening.
In class this week:
English Language Arts:
We have completed our study of how to have a great heart literally! This week we will be starting a new book titled Love That Dog. This book introduces what it means to have a great heart, figuratively, through poetry! Throughout our study of Love That Dog, we will also be working with other poems such as "The Red Wheelbarrow", "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", "The Tiger", "The Pasture", and much more. Not only will we see characteristics of having a great heart figuratively, but we will also be learning about what a poem is, how to write poems, and how words can be put together strategically in order to create multiple meanings. I am excited about starting this new book in class and I hope the kids are too!
Poetry, being very different from the prose we are used to, we have added some new pages about prose and poetry in our reading notebooks. By the end of the week, all students should understand the different characteristics of both prose and poetry as well as how to identify it in their reading.
Grammar:
Because we are dealing with poetry, our focus is going to be on the ordering of adjectives. Our learning goal for this week is as follows: Evaluate writing for vivid use and the correct order of adjectives.
Social Studies: Primary and Secondary Sources
We will be adding the concept of primary and secondary sources into your reading notebooks. Students will be watching the video posted below, identifying examples of primary and secondary sources, discussing the importance of both, and deciding when it is appropriate to use each type of source.
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