Beginning with Bucket Fillers. Ending with a Birthday!

Our day began with the reading of the bucket fillers with wrote yesterday, and… a bonus note from Miss Kaun. We were thrilled to receive handwritten notes in brightly colored envelopes, each purposefully penned, particular to each person. Perfectly precious!

Throughout the day, we learned more about our author of the week, Seymour Simon, and dug into a mentor text, Insects. We completed a Frayer model of a new and interesting word – hemiptera – and analyzed a particularly powerful sentence. We then tried to write our own sentence in the same, sophisticated style as our author. We will continue this work throughout the week as we explore other books by the same author.

Affixes: The Building Blocks of English

We also launched an inquiry into a series of nonfiction texts featuring “survivors” in nature. With our table groups, we did a picture walk and did a visible thinking routine – I see. I think. I wonder. We then identified one “survivor” in our text and wrote a journal entry from the perspective of that survivor. At least three additional journal entries will be written this week, enabling us to show what we know about our main idea and about plants and animals… and elements, that struggle to survive.

To end our day, we were able to celebrate another scholar with singing and snacks – delicious Dad-baked delicacies! You can’t go wrong with chocolate chip cookies! Yum!! Happy Birthday, Isabel! We are so grateful you have joined our TASOK family this year. Know you are an incredible addition!

   

 

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