Happy New Year & Welcome
Back!
Today in ELA, we began our
story writing unit. I shared with
students a VERY basic story about the Three Little Pigs, and then asked
students to provide me with feedback. Students were very clear on the missing
components of my story:
A.S. – lack of details
A.H. – lack of descriptive
vocabulary but could identify problem
V.B. – telling the story versus
‘showing’ the story
E.d. – lack of introduction,
context, and depth of characters
A.H. – boring and was not
interesting
D.H. – very short
L.I. – no context or character
motivations
A.C. – not painting a picture in
the reader’s head and no literary techniques
R.M. & A.D. – you didn’t tell
me how! I was left with lots of
questions and no explanations.
C.M. – small details were left
out
L.S. – need to describe the
setting
We continued our writing
block as students worked on being descriptive as they attempted to describe an
item in the classroom which their partner was required to sketch. Students
quickly learned you needed to be descriptive and detailed in order for your ‘reader’
to see the same picture as you.
In math, we returned to our
Number Sense unit and began our lessons and practice in long division. We will continue to work on this process, and
related problems, throughout the week.
Lastly, if you have not
already done so, please return the cross-country skiing acknowledgement of risk
form.
Thanks,
Ms. McGrath
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