Reading Workshop
We continued our mystery unit in class. Each detective club is nearing the end of its chapter book. The conversations have been pretty exciting! Students have taken a lot of good reading detective notes and have come up with a list of suspects. It will be fun to find out how the mysteries end. We focused on specific character traits of the characters in our books and practiced providing evidence from the book to support our thinking. We also learned more about a red herring (clue which throws the detective off track) and discussed possible red herrings in our books.
Writing Workshop
Students have been working on their personal essays. They began with an opinion statement, such as "I think people should reach to do the impossible." Next, students worked on writing an introduction. They also worked on beginning to write two, focused short stories which support their opinion statement. We hope to finish the essays up in class this week.
Gingerbread Workshop
The class had a lot of fun building and decorating gingerbread houses! Thank you so much to everyone for donating our needed supplies! Thanks also to all of the parent volunteers for helping our class build and decorate! We couldn't have done it without you!!
Science
Students continued to learn more about light from a few explorations in class. We discovered the difference between transparent, translucent, and opaque materials. We also learned that light bends when it passes from one material to another.
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