Weekly Update

Happy Friday!

Here is a look at one of the tasks we did this week: Story Elements of "The Wild Robot"

Learning Intentions:

• Examine and confirm the author’s or text creator’s purpose based on information in the text.
• Examine a variety of text features that provide additional and important information in a text.
• Examine elements within a variety of fictional texts.
• Create imaginative representations or dramatizations of fictional texts that depict understandings of characters, setting, and plot.

This week we talked about Story Elements: characters, setting, events, problem, solution and theme.  Students got to write down defintions and practice giving examples of each.  Then, we looked at all these elemnts connected to "The Wild Robot".  Students had to reflect back and describe these in sentences and also reflect on if they liked the book and who they would recomments it to and why.  Students extended their learning by answering some comprehension questions as well. 

Reminders:

Enjoy your fall break starting today until Nov. 13th!  We are excited to see all the kids again on Thursday, November 14th.

If you haven't returned your swimming permission form for your child, please ensure they come back next week.