In Writer's Workshop, the children have begun writing their Fairy Tale adaptations. They are using their storyboard as plans and are drafting stories using narration and dialogue. As the children are writing, they are encouraged to elaborate with details to make the story come to life for the reader. What is your child writing about? Is it an adaptation of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, or Three Billy Goats Gruff?
We are almost finished reading Because of Winn-Dixie. This week we focused on exploring secondary characters in a story. These are the characters that are not the main focus of the story, but have some effect on the main character. We found in our reading that secondary or supporting characters can act as advisers (giving advice), sidekicks (friends), or challengers (antagonists). See if your child can tell you about the secondary characters in Because of Winn-Dixie. What role do Gloria, Otis, and Franny Block play?
In math, we began a Geometry unit. This week we explored the term attributes and identified attributes of a variety of shapes. The children worked in partnerships to create a shape poster highlighting the attributes of special quadrilaterals: squares, trapezoids, parallelograms, and rhombuses. Ask your child if he or she can tell you about an attribute of one of these shapes. We also learned about and explored tangrams. Tangrams were invented in China hundreds of years ago and are a set of seven puzzle pieces called tans. These tans (different shapes) can be combined to form a square. It was quite a challenge to put them together into a square!
Have a good weekend!
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