Writing Celebrations
On Friday we celebrated our
essay writing as a class. Each student was able to read a classmate's
essay and then compliment that writer on what they did a nice job with.
Many students were able to compliment more than one classmate. The
kids did a great job with carefully thinking about what their classmates did
well as writers. The writing celebrations will be shared with the authors
next week.
Storytellers
In writing, we are working
on gathering ideas for realistic fiction stories. We have learned that
authors will often take small moments that have happened in their life and turn
and twist it a little bit to make it “realistic” fiction. We spent lots
of writing time brainstorming writing topics that we care about. This
will help us as we start to think about what kind of topics are important to us
as we start to draft realistic fiction narratives.
Conferences
Just a reminder that this week we have parent/teacher conferences.
You should have received information about signing up for conferences
last Wednesday. If you aren't able to get onto the website, please let me
know and I can put your name into a time slot.
Please be on
the lookout for a conference planning questionnaire that will come home with
your child on Tuesday. If you can fill that out and send it in with your
child on Wednesday it will help me make sure that I address any concerns that
you have about your child at his/her conference. This has helped in the
past since we only have 10 minutes for our conference.
I am also
going to attach the page here. You can fill it out and send it in with
your child OR you can email your responses to me.
October 2014
Dear
Parents/Guardians,
I
thought it would be helpful to get some information from you before we have our
conference this week. You will not be
receiving a report card at the conference so it leads us to truly being able to
have a discussion about what we all see happening right now and where we need
to strengthen your child’s academic and social skills. With that in mind,
please answer these questions as best you can and return it to school by Wednesday, October 15th so that we’re all ready to discuss your child
in a timely manner.
1. What strengths do you see your
child showing?
2. What weaknesses do you see your
child showing?
3. What questions do you have about
homework so far this year?
4.
What social concerns do you have for your child this year?
5.
What other topics would you like us to discuss?
Sincerely,
Mrs. Lewis
Thank you for your help in this! I am looking forward to seeing everyone at conferences this week.
~Mrs. Lewis
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