Battle of the Books!

We are excited to start participating in Battle of the Books this year in Marshall!  We kicked off this endeavor on Tuesday when Mrs. Landers our TAG coordinator came in to our classroom to introduce Battle of the Books and give us the book list!  I will have copies of as many of these books in our classroom that I can get my hands on, but they can also be checked out in our library as well as at the public libraries in the area.  Check out the parent letter below, or print off a copy to see specifics :)

As an extra incentive I have place a graph on our data wall to keep track of how many of the books each student has read.  I will also be reading the books and will post which book I am reading in our classroom.

Let the battle begin!!!

Battle of the Books Parent Letter 

Paragraph Writing

This week we really got in to what makes a sentence a good sentence, and how it should start (most of the time).  We reviewed how great sentences use subjects and predicates, start with capitalization and end with punctuation.  We really practiced using subjects at the beginning of our sentences and leaving *and* *but* and *because* to connect our ideas together, instead of to start our sentence.  Take a look at the blog post we made, answering the question.....WOULD YOU RATHER.

Character Traits

Over the past two weeks we have been working on using character traits to determine what a character feels and why the character may act a certain way.  This is leading us to the characters role in a stories plot.  It is important to fully understand the characters we are reading about as it helps us understand the plot of the story with deeper meaning.  In our notebooks this week we discussed the learning goal and what we already understand about characters and their traits.  We also glued in a character trait tool to help us keep track of the traits our characters possess.