Can You Complete The Challenge?

Are you up for the 100 Book Challenge, Challenge? We are challenging each student to read for at least 1 hour (4 steps) everyday while on break. You can fill in your steps on our special red holiday reading logs! If you run out of space make sure you keep logging the steps you read on a separate sheet of paper. We can't wait to see who was able to complete the challenge! 

Non Fiction Reading and Writing

For the month of December we have been reading non fiction books and articles. In reading the children have been reading a wide range of non fiction books and discussing what they learned, questions and wonderings they have with their reading partners.
In writing each student has been focusing on an animal they are researching. They have been reading articles and books to become experts on their animal. Ask your child what animal they are studying and what interesting facts they have learned.
As part of the homework assignment we asked to send in shoe boxes. This week we will be working on projects that go with our animal research. Check back to our blog soon to see pictures of our animal projects!

Authors As Mentors

We just finished our writing unit "Author's As Mentors." During this unit we used author Kevin Henkes as our mentor author. We used his books to help us develop our writing craft. We also became big fans of Henkes books and his funny characters.