Today students worked at their opinion writing essays. Each week, we will be tackling an issue and students will be writing a 3 - 5 paragraph essay based on the issue. This week the issue is: Should children drink sugary drinks? Our learning target today was learning how to create an effective opening paragraph to an opinion essay.
Math
In math, the BA is being pushed to Thursday due to the snow day. We will be reviewing today and tomorrow. The last 2 pages of the homework packet have pages from the math journal and problems to practice per each skill.
Readers' Workshop
Today we read a story called Marilyn's Monster. We are reading short stories and asking specific questions about the text:- What does the character learn?
- How does the character change?
- What critical choices does the character make?
- What can the character teach me about life?
These questions all get to the theme of the story. Students are thinking of the questions and developing a theory of what the theme of the story might be. As time goes on, your child will be writing longer literary essays based on book theme and evidence to support their thinking.
Homework:
- 30 minutes of reading
- Review questions for math
Reminders:
-math BA unit 3 Thursday
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