We are busy, busy in Language Arts! The skills we are working on include main idea, supporting details, summarizing, making inferences, and supporting them with evidence from the text. In class, we have two notebooks- one is for reading and the other for writing. They both stay at school in my classroom and kids have their own drawers to keep them in.
Today we practiced main idea, details, and inferencing skills using whiteboards. We worked a lot on how it is okay to sometimes write in your own words or to copy it directly from the article making sure to use quotation marks. (see the sample below)
With vocabulary, today each class chose three words that have been important to Language Arts so far and we made webs for these. Then, we talked about the root graph and how it means "write". See how we illustrated that in our notebooks below.
In writing, we are working on organizing ideas into paragraphs and writing topic sentences this week. We started a class mini-writing project on a vertebrate. Mrs. Skeels' class chose amphibians while Mrs. Will and Dr. Stoyle's classses chose fish. We had to brainstorm subheadings or big ideas that we could research about. Then, kids took notes in groups on the subheading their group had. (see below). We will use that to anchor us together to practice writing a paragraph with a topic sentence. That will transfer over to the kids' own informational writing projects. As of now, kids have made an expert list in the back of their notebooks and written 1 or 2 entries about these topics.
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