March 26, 2012

STARR testing will be happening to morrow in the building, so please do not come to eat lunch with the students.  There is not to be any outside visitors.  The students were back in full working order because we got through everything we needed to.  We did reading groups and began discussing how books compare to one another.  Also the big idea or main idea of a section.  The main idea helps the reader understand the story.  During writing we looked at chapter books and discussed how excellent writers lead off their compositions to grab or hook the reader.  We discovered there are five ways to begin a composition.  We are writing personal narratives and trying to lead off our writing with excellent leads.  Then we did spelling and began our unit on SPL, SPR, and words with sent in them.  The students are amazing and we have almost completed our weather unit. What has fascinated you so far in our weather unit?