Monday, February 25, 2013

The Kitchen Sink for the Week of 2/25/13


Field Trip Reminder
Tomorrow we are going to the IMAX Theater.  Students should wear their red Chets Creek shirt and bring a bag lunch.  Please note that the forecast for tomorrow indicates an 80% chance of rain.  Students may want to bring a raincoat. 

Readers’ Workshop
This week we are wrapping up our nonfiction unit.  We have worked to notice and understand text features, recognize what is important and the details that support the main idea, and identify the text structure.  We will be having a quiz on text features this Friday.  To prepare, students should study the golden text feature sheet we completed in class. 

Writers’ Workshop
We will continue the biography project this week by moving into the presentation phase.  Students will not stand in front of the class and read their reports.  Instead, a questionnaire will be distributed on Tuesday and students will use what they have researched to fill it out.  They will turn it in on Thursday for review.  It will be given back them Friday, and that is when they will sign up for a presentation date.  We will use a random lottery system to assign presentation dates over a two week period.  Students will present their answers to the questions in front of the class, and they may dress in a costume for extra credit points.  Please see the project handout, which your child viewed in class today, for more information.  They will get their own copy on Tuesday.

Skills Block
There will be no spelling homework or test this week.


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