Thursday, March 18, 2010

Reading Update

Third Grade Third graders began Pixie last week. Their homework is to think of another example of "2 left feet or 2 right feet". Fourth Grade Students began The Phantom Tollbooth. They are to read to page 144 for next week. They are to also to pick a flower and write a paragraph from 4 different points of view. Fifth Grade Fifth grade students should have finished all their work for The House of Dies Drear. Students have chosen a book to read independently from a selection of books. They are to have at least half the book read by next week. They will be asked to turn in 2 flow maps: one for 10 events in the book with 2 supporting details and one for a character of their choice with 8 events and 2 supporting details. There will be a bubble map for a character of their choice with 10 attributes and one supporting detail for each attribute. Student will have 3 paragraphs that are text to self, text, and world connections of at least 7 sentences each for the book.