Wednesday, October 25

 Hi parents,

We had another great day today. The students worked so hard on their paragraphs this morning. I'm really proud of all of them. Last year, we started getting serious about paragraph writing in January, so for the students to be able to take on a writing task like this in October is really awesome. 

Based on what I've seen, the biggest area for growth is going to be grammar. I've seen a lot of issues with tenses and plurals (for example: "The mountains is beautiful", or "the earth is forming millions of years ago")

It's tricky for kids to fix errors like that because even when they read their writing aloud, they don't necessarily hear anything wrong with it. I'm hoping that going over some example / non-example paragraphs as a class will help them hear the difference.

In continuing with our exploration of plants, we read a book about fashion. We talked about how many fabrics come from plants. Tomorrow, the students will be designing their own plant-fashion outfits. We did this activity last year too - it's probably one of my favourites of all time. 

We ended our day with Daily LA, Art, and printing / cursive practice. I told the students the story of "The Big Toe". It's a spooky one.

BLOG HOMEWORK: Write a Topic Sentence for this paragraph. (2 points)

_____________________[insert topic sentence here]_______________________

It is an awesome way to express yourself. You can paint landscapes, people, animals, or even things around the house. Some art is very unusual looking. It makes people wonder about what it could be showing. A world without art would be a very boring place.

Have a nice night!

Zac