6th Grade Unit 2 Persuasive Writing

Since Thanksgiving was coming up, my 6th graders wrote a persuasive paragraph called "Don't Eat Turkey".  Here they had to convince the reader to eat anything but turkey.  Some of them came up with really funny ideas.  They did an amazing job!

Discovery of Puerto Rico and Thanksgiving

It seems as if all the holidays came one after the other this month.  Yesterday we celebrated the Discovery of Puerto Rico; and this Thursday, Thanksgiving.  Here are some activities my kids did for these two holidays.

Discovery of Puerto Rico

Thanksgiving

2nd Grade

2nd Grade

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3rd Grade

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4th Grade

3rd Grade Writing

Last week, 3rd graders learned about the first of the writing process:  Prewriting.  During the first step, they brainstormed about Thanksgiving.  After, they formed sentences.  In another lesson, they learned paragraph structure.  They used the sentences they had made, and put them in a paragraph.

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2nd Grade Unit 2 Seasons

2nd graders have been learning about the seasons. In the lesson I integrated some pictures of paintings found in the Ponce Museum of Art that were related to the seasons.  After, the kids made an accordion  foldable and made their own seasons book.  They came out amazing!

6th Grade Unit 2 Types of Writing Veteran's Day

6th graders are studying elements in writing forms:  descriptive, narrative, expository, and persuasive.  They made a shutterfold foldable.  Next, they had to write each paragraph on the flap that corresponded to the form of writing.  They did a great job!

Test Alert

2nd and 4th graders will have a test on Thursday, November 15th.

Concepts/Skills to be covered:

• 2nd grade - rhyming words and the seasons

• 4th grade- descriptive and narrative writing forms and transitions

Please study!

4th Grade Ordering Events and Transitions

My 4th graders have been learning about transitions.  In this activity they had to read each sentence, and glue  it in the correct order using transitions to help them with the sequence.

3rd Grade Types of Writing Descriptive/Narrative Shutterfold Foldable

My 3rd graders started learning about elements of descriptive and narrative writing.  For this activity they made a shutterfold foldable, where they had to read each paragraph and write it on the narrative or descriptive flap.  Since Monday is Veteran's Day, I decided to integrate the holiday in the lesson.

4th Grade Unit 2 Types of Writing & Transitions

4th graders have been learning about descriptive and narrative forms of writing.  They also started learning about transitions.  Soon they will be writing their own personal narrative.

2nd Grade Unit 2 "Tiny Seed" & Seasons

2nd graders listened to the story "The Tiny Seed" by Eric Carle.  They really enjoyed it.  After listening to the story, the kids drew pictures of what happened to the tiny during each season.  In the next class, they arranged events in order.

4th Grade Unit 2 Comparing/Contrasting Characters

4th graders had to compare and contrast characters on a Venn Diagram.  They compared and contrasted Anna from "The Keeping Quilt" and Anthony from "Anthony Reynoso Born to Rope".

Test Alert

Please remember to study!  

6th grade test was changed to Thursday, November 1st.  3rd and 5th grade test will be on Friday, November 2nd.

Do your best! You can do it!

4th Grade Unit 2 Anthony Reynoso

4th graders made a flapbook in order to make connections text to self, text to text, text to world.

3rd Grade Unit 2 Ugly Duckling

After completing the storymap flapbook, 3rd graders worked on story organization.  They had to arrange the events of the story in beginning, middle, and end on a pie chart and on a strip.