Reading and Writing - week of 11/26
Posted by Jessica Shevitz on Tuesday, November 27, 2012
We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving holiday! We all enjoyed time off to spend with our families, and can't believe that it's almost December!
The kids seemed really excited today as we introduced our new reading homework, so hopefully that will transfer to their work with you at home. ***We are looking for donations of plastic gallon sized baggies to hold our books for homework***
This week in reading, we'll be starting our unit on Folktales. We start by reviewing the characteristics of a folktale, to show the difference between this genre and other types of fiction. We'll be using folktales to revisit some concepts from earlier in the year as well as explore some new thinking. We'll be discussing characters and their traits again, in the context of overcoming challenges. We'll also look at how other characters respond to events in the story. Folktales are a great way for us to look at the central message or lesson in a story. Most folktales were told and retold in order to teach some sort of lesson, and we'll explore what some of those are in the books that we read.
In writing, most of the classes are still finishing up some descriptive writing pieces, and we're hoping to start our unit on writing folktales next week! We'll keep you posted!
The kids seemed really excited today as we introduced our new reading homework, so hopefully that will transfer to their work with you at home. ***We are looking for donations of plastic gallon sized baggies to hold our books for homework***
This week in reading, we'll be starting our unit on Folktales. We start by reviewing the characteristics of a folktale, to show the difference between this genre and other types of fiction. We'll be using folktales to revisit some concepts from earlier in the year as well as explore some new thinking. We'll be discussing characters and their traits again, in the context of overcoming challenges. We'll also look at how other characters respond to events in the story. Folktales are a great way for us to look at the central message or lesson in a story. Most folktales were told and retold in order to teach some sort of lesson, and we'll explore what some of those are in the books that we read.
In writing, most of the classes are still finishing up some descriptive writing pieces, and we're hoping to start our unit on writing folktales next week! We'll keep you posted!