Week of February 4 - 8Dear Parents,
I hope you had a great weekend and enjoyed watching the Super Bowl! The Patriots win another one... Topics this week: Reading AND Writing: We are continuing to create goals, read uninterruptedly in class, and answer questions with our book club books! Thank you so much for supporting your child's love of reading by talking with them about their book selection. Last week I had the opportunity to meet with the students and ask what THEY wanted to learn and accomplish in our informational reading and writing unit. We looked at the reading and writing standards and they came up with a magazine project that we will begin the early stages of this week. Students will have the opportunity to choose their magazine project topic. The project will include an informational essay about their topic and then use the non fiction text features and structures in mini articles about their topic. We will begin narrowing down our topics and writing an introduction for our essays this week. We will also be comparing informational reading to fiction reading and analyze text features in a non fiction text. Lanuage Arts: This week we will review relative pronouns and adverbs. We will also be talking about correlative conjunctions (ACC). We will have a quiz this week on these topics. As we read an informational text, we will also review synonyms and antonyms and use context clues when coming across unknown vocabulary words. Reminders:
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns by emailing me directly at [email protected]. Have a wonderful week & stay warm! Jenn Shaffer Dolvin Elementary School E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://mrsjennshaffer.weebly.com Twitter: @mrsjennshaffer Comments are closed.
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Mrs. ShafferMy name is Jennifer Shaffer. I have been teaching for 16 years now. I have taught a variety of different grades and levels. I graduated from the University of Alabama with my undergraduate degree. While there I did my student teaching abroad in Australia. After college I loved learning so much that I continued my studies at Piedmont College where I got my Master in Early Childhood Education and my Specialist in Teaching and Learning. I have taught at a variety of schools around Georgia and have had many experiences to observe in unique classrooms. In 2008 I went with the Japanese Consulate to Japan to study their educational system and culture through the International Educators to Japan (IEJ). Weekly E-mail/BlogArchives
May 2019
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