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.

6th Grade Unit 2 Earthquake Terror

6th graders have been reading the story "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret.  Currently they are working on the skill Cause and Effect.  Yesterday, they made a flapbook where they had to write the cause and effect.

Houghton Mifflin Reading Expeditions

3rd Grade Unit 2 The Ugly Duckling

 My 3rd graders have been reading the story "The Ugly Duckling" retold by Sharon Fear.  They have been learning about using vocabulary in context and the present and past tense of regular verbs.  Today, we finished reading the story. The kids created a story map flapbook, where they wrote and drew pictures about the character, setting, and problem.  I think they did an awesome job!

5th Grade Unit 2 Akiak

5th graders just finished reading the story "Akiak" by Robert J. Blake.  They learned new vocabulary and applied it using context clues.  Additionally they were able to distinguish fiction from nonfiction.  Currently they are learning about prefixes, suffixes, and base words.  The also saw some videos related to the Iditarod Race in Alaska.  Today, they worked on a story map flapbook.  Here's the finished product.

Houghton Mifflin Reading Traditions

3rd Grade Unit 2 Past/Present Tense Regular Verb

3rd graders have been learning about present and past tense of regular verbs.  They have used verb tense in sentences, as well as classified the verbs in present and past tense.

Activity adapted from www.theautismhelper.com

2nd Grade Unit 2 Consonant Digraphs

2nd graders have been working on consonant digraphs sh, wh , th, ch, ph.

Test Alert

5th Graders will be having a test next Tuesday, October 16th.
Study:

• Vocabulary
• Qualities that make a good leader
• What is a community?
• Fiction and Nonfiction (literary genres)

6th Graders will be having a test next Tuesday, October 16th.  

Study:

• Dictation of vocabulary words
• Vocabulary words in context
• Sentences, fragments, run-on sentences
• Kinds of sentences (declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory)
• Challenges facing communities

6th Grade Unit 2 Sentences, Fragments, Run On Sentences

6th graders have been working on identifying sentences, fragments, and run-on sentences.  They also had to correct run-on sentences.  Here's an activity we did today, where they had to cut and glue group of words under the correct column.

2nd Grade Unit 2 Initial Sounds

2nd graders have been working with initial sounds.  Today they did an activity where they had to listen to the word, and write the initial sound.  Next, they had to cut and glue the picture to the correct letter.

Activity from www.makinglearningfun.com

6th Grade Unit 2

6th graders will give an oral presentation on Friday, October 19th poem "Shake, Rattle, and Roll".  Evaluation criteria has been given to students.  So practice, practice! :)

ELL Handbook Reading Expeditions Houghton Mifflin

3rd Grade Unit 2 Immigration

 After learning about Christopher Columbus, the kids made ships to resemble the Santa Maria, La Niña, La Pinta.  Their ships came out awesome!  I loved them!

4th Grade Unit 2 My Timeline

Today we began to work on Unit 2 My Timeline.  We had a discussion on what was a timeline, and the kids  made their own.

2nd Grade Unit 2 Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

My kids in 2nd grade loved the story "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom".  In this activity, they had to cut and glue  capital letters and match them to the lowercase letters.  They did an amazing job!

Activity from www.firstgradealacarte.blogspot.com

2nd Grade Unit 2.2 Landforms Flapbook

2nd graders created a flapbook about landforms.  They followed instructions, labeled, and drew a picture of various landforms that Puerto Rico has.