This week during Writing Workshop we investigated how different authors make their writing interesting to readers. We took a close look at Night Of The Veggie Monster by George McClements and Frankie Stein. We found that authors do A LOT of different things to make different parts of their stories stand out to reader and we talked about how these decisions are carefully decided by an author and serve different purposes. The kids then tried to incorporate some of these into their writing of their personal narratives.
Also this week we concluded our study of spiders by taking all of our knowledge we had recorded in our science notebooks and working as teams to create a simple presentation to a class of 4th graders at Wright Elementary via video chat. Each team created a poster (see above picture) with a detailed illustration on the front and facts they wanted to share with the fourth grade class on the back so they could read them while presenting. After hearing the presentations the fourth graders shared what facts they had learned about spiders. This was an AWESOME experience for us and them!
Related Arts Next Week:
Monday - P.E.
Tuesday - Art
Wednesday - Music
Thursday - Library
Friday - P.E.
Also this week we concluded our study of spiders by taking all of our knowledge we had recorded in our science notebooks and working as teams to create a simple presentation to a class of 4th graders at Wright Elementary via video chat. Each team created a poster (see above picture) with a detailed illustration on the front and facts they wanted to share with the fourth grade class on the back so they could read them while presenting. After hearing the presentations the fourth graders shared what facts they had learned about spiders. This was an AWESOME experience for us and them!
Related Arts Next Week:
Monday - P.E.
Tuesday - Art
Wednesday - Music
Thursday - Library
Friday - P.E.