Students have been practicing comparing and contrasting two non-fiction texts. This is something that they can easily do at home with books, magazines, and even on Achieve3000. Ask your student about our reading challenge. Make sure that they are logging those minutes every day!
Students are also practicing identifying the main idea in a text and finding the key details that support it. We practice this with Time for Kids in class. What are some ways that you can practice this at home?
As we are approaching the middle of the year it is important that your child is choosing just right books. Ask your student or their teacher what reading level they are on so that you can continue to help your growing reader! Spend time talking and journaling with your student about what they are reading at home.
Students are also practicing identifying the main idea in a text and finding the key details that support it. We practice this with Time for Kids in class. What are some ways that you can practice this at home?
As we are approaching the middle of the year it is important that your child is choosing just right books. Ask your student or their teacher what reading level they are on so that you can continue to help your growing reader! Spend time talking and journaling with your student about what they are reading at home.
| Writing Like a Scientist Students are learning how to write like a scientist. This is new and very different we are working together through the scientific method. Students are coming up with questions of things that they want to know more about. They are turning their questions into a hypothesis, coming up with an experiment, making observations and then drawing a conclusion. This may see like it is too hard, but it's not! Students are very excited about it! Support your student at home by trying to create some hypotheses and experiments together. |