Friday, October 28th

Here we are again at the end of yet another week. I have many, many items to share with you all today as well as some reminders for the following week.

Creative Writing: Today we had a writing workshop where we focused on the writing skills we have learned this year. The important skills we worked on included capitalizing all words at the beginning of sentences and including punctuation at the end of a sentence. We have been studying nocturnal animals and today we read a fictional story about a baby bat and her journey to find her mother. On the way she finds a family of birds and tries to live with them but notices quickly that birds and bats are very different. After we listened to the story, the students were asked the following question: Would you rather be a bird or a bat? Why?

Listen to the podcasts to find out what we thought!

Pretty cool, huh?!

Friday Spotlight: This is something new that I am going to implement in order to share out some of the great things your students are doing and learning in class. Each Friday I will choose 3 students to share something they have learned with the class. Students may choose to read a page out of a challenging book, they may choose to read some sight words, they may choose to read the shared reading, they may choose to complete a challenging math problem, etc. I will be video recording these Friday Spotlights and posting them on our classroom website. Be on the lookout-your student could be the star!!!

**Reminders**
-DEARABBY, Math Log, and Spelling Words went home today in O.W.L binders
-Report Cards will be coming out soon-stayed tuned to find out when!
-Celebrations of Success will be on Friday, November 4th at 12:00