update 2-14

Happy Valentine's Day!  This week, we worked on the reading standards of reasons and evidence.  We have been reading opinions related to a topic and identifying reasons the author used to support their ideas before deciding to write their own.  We have read about whether school music programs are important, having robotic pets versus real pets, year round schooling, and lastly chocolate milk versus white milk.

Currently, we are reading about whether or not schools should be serving chocolate milk in cafeterias.   Each class was split about evenly on the first day before reading.  They had to decide how they thought.  We will see how the thinking shifts...

Kids are finishing an Explorer Project that is integrated with Social Studies.  That is due this Thursday and kids will share those in class.  All kids had time last Friday, Monday, and today to work on the projects.  See some samples below.

The AIR test for ELA is coming up in March...we are working hard to prepare for it!  Reading Counts is due by March 15.