College Colors Day

Finding Character Traits and Evidence in a Passage

Today we practiced finding character traits and supporting evidence in a cold read passage. The students will have a similar assignment on the test. Your child has a copy of this in their reading journal.
They can practice reading the passage, finding the traits, and evidence in the following passages.
African American Newsmakers

The students practiced their regions today by singing our Regions song with hand motions. Enjoy!

Have a great afternoon! Tomorrow is Friday, but today is Game Day... Go Gamecocks!

Finding Evidence in the Text: Jump

This is a great resource to review for the test. Your child will have this in their journal today. 

Here is a student example: 

Here is my model. (I took a picture of the computer screen) 

SC Regions Vocabulary

Study the Regions Vocabulary Chart at home each night. Here are a few examples. 

Character Traits

We are noticing character traits in reading this week. On Monday, we focused on Michael Jordan's traits in the text, Jump! The students noticed several traits on the Common Character Traits list; however, I had them narrow their choice down to one where they had to provide evidence from the text to support their answer.

 

Today, we read Tough Boris, written by one of my favorite authors, Mem Fox. Before reading the text, the students moved around the room to predict the trait based on the picture.

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After this activity, we read the text together and compared our trait predictions to the text.

 

As an extension to the lesson, we "tweeted" a trait that best describes us. Check our Twitter page (located on the right) to see a few responses.

Week 2!

 

Newsletter
 

 Math Homework:

 You will find a weekly math homework sheet in your child's STAR folder. 

Each column is required to be completed on the corresponding day. You will see that there are two long boxes at the top and middle of the page. Your child can complete those boxes on Monday. On the back, there is additional space for the student to show their work. At the bottom, there is a section for the student to reflect on their work. This will be completed in class. Please contact me if you have questions. 

We used this chart today to practice how we can describe numbers in different ways. You can review this at home with your child. You will find a completed copy in their math journal. 

Social Studies: The students are excited to begin our study of South Carolina history; I am pretty excited myself! This week we will focus on the six regions of SC. 

Your child will bring home their SS Journals to study each night. 

Be on the look out for blog posts this week to see your ALL*STAR in action! 

 Have a great week!

Spirit Day!

We love Oakland!