Friday, November 11, 2016

Main Idea

Next week we will begin learning about main idea.  Look below to see the notes about where to find the main idea.



Check out the song below that tells you more about main idea!




Here's another great video that shows you how to find the main idea! Check it out!

Author's Purpose and Research Writing

We had some fun this week learning about author's purpose.

We played the pie game...serving pies with different titles on to the correct author's purpose plate.






We also read some short stories and worked together to decide the author's purpose.  They used the iPads to scan a QR code to check their answers!





In writing we began researching penguins.  They were split into groups and each group was assigned a different penguin to research. The final project will be a poster with all of their information!






It was a great week of learning!

Sunday, November 6, 2016

Author's Purpose

This week we will be learning about the author's purpose for writing a text. The chart below shows what we will be discussing in class this week!


Check out the song below that talks about author's purpose!

Fiction or Nonfiction?

We have been studying the differences between fiction and nonfiction.  To make it more fun we played several games about the differences between the two types of literature.