With three weeks of school left and Memorial Day having past, it's starting to feel like the end of the school year. We still have a lot left to do, though.
In Reading we have been working on making our oral summaries of books that we read more detailed and thoughtful. If you look at the post below this one on the blog you can see the questionnaire students filled out to practice using some elements of Narrative text. Focusing on these structures helps guide their thinking about what's important to include in a retelling.
If you would like to join us in working on this at home, here is what we've zoomed in on for now:
Characters: The who.
Setting: The where and the when.
Plot: What happens. We broke this into a beginning, middle and end.
Coming up we will be focusing on more complicated ideas of theme, conflict, problem and solution.
If you'd like to add to our growing spreadsheet of narrative elements, please feel free to submit on the form in the preceding post.
Some upcoming dates and events to know about.
May 27th: 3rd grade field trip to Oregon Historical Society.
June 3rd: 3rd grade Cafeteria Duty.
June 4th: Field day. Lewis needs volunteers if you are able.
June 8th: Walking field trip to Berkeley Park with our buddy class. Come along from 11 - 2.
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