My class is hard at work on writing book reviews. They wrote their first book review this week on a book of their choice that they read. On Monday, they will be using the computer program Pixie to record themselves reading their book reviews and drawing a picture to go along with it.
When we are finished with these book reviews we will then start our author study unit on Tomie dePaolo! The students will be reading lots of his books then writing a book review on the book of their choice. They are working hard at being more independent writers, especially with revising and editing their writing.
This coming week, we will be starting novel discussion circles. We will be focusing on asking big questions about the novels and having discussions in reading group. I am excited to get this started with them and I think it will be very rewarding for the students!
In social studies, we are learning about how and why communities change. The students have spent the last couple lessons deciding whether to tear down or fix old buildings in a community. They are working in cooperative groups to plan a new community!
In math, the kids are in the middle of the measurement unit. We just finished learning about perimeter and area and next week it's on to conversions and time!
Happy Spring!
