Back to School!

We are back to school in room 206 and excited for a fresh start to the year! One of those changes is starting our classroom blog! We will use this as a sort of "Classroom History," where the room 206 kiddos get to work on their writing skills as well as make history! I also will use the class blog to send updates and upload documents for parents to use! Thanks for dropping by!

here is a model of a classroom reporter post:

After a terrific holiday break, room 206 is back in action! We began the year by introducing our language arts theme of the month-Main Idea. In order to learn how to best find the main idea, we're using non-fiction text features to "steal" the main idea! We're sneaking in (previewing the book) and stealing as much information as possible using the acrostic T.H.I.E.V.E.S.

T-Title

H-Heading

I-Introduction

E-Every first sentence of a paragraph

V-Visuals and Vocabulary

E-End of chapter questions

S-Summary

We have added some work to our Daily 5 routine and next week we will try out a new reading log. With only a few short months until MCA testing, we really want to buckle down and practice our comprehension and vocabulary skills.

We also painted Winter Birch Trees to display down in the main entry bulletin boards. It was lots of fun to play with the painter's tape, watercolors, and "snow!"

Though we don't get to sleep in and wear PJ's until lunch, coming back to some fun things was a great welcome!