Dear Parents & Students, March brought with it a celebration of
reading with our Read-In Day. Students enjoyed books, magazines
and sharing stories with their buddies. We finished our study of
Matter and Energy and had a fabulous lesson on the states of
matter by making ice cream with Mr. Fowler (Lila's dad). Thanks
so much Mr. Fowler - a highlight of our month! Our new theme in
Language Arts is Animal Habitats. Our first story was about
Puffins and we are now reading about the unlikely friendship
between a seal and a boy. This unit lends itself to a study of
non fiction and how we need to read this type of text
differently than fiction stories. We are learning about text
features. To go along with this, we will begin doing current
events. Students will complete 4 or 5 of them. Initially, I will
provide students with an article and a very formatted form to
fill out. Each form will leave more and more to the students,
guiding them less and less until they write a paragraph summary
of the article. More on this