Journeys Lesson 1 & 2

 

All students are currently in the last steps of their personal narratives. Last week we brainstormed different ideas to write about, and then chose the one that provided the most memory and details. After that we planned! This involved prewriting all the thoughts and details in sequence order. Now everyone is to the point of writing their rough drafts by using a lot of elaboration.
Delivering the HOOK at the beginning was the most fun so far. How do you reel the reader in? Next week we will revise the work and then start our final copies! They are excited to share all their personal experiences and I am excited to read them! 

This week and last week we wrapped up lesson 1 and 2 in our Journey's curriculum. You will see the concepts we covered below. We will also continue to touch on each concept in future lessons, in addition to many more, as the year goes on. 

All students brought home their work pages from lessons 1 and 2. These pages were either checked by me OR we went over the pages as a class. When we go over pages as a class it is the students responsibility to make and changes they need to, ask questions and even star work that was done correctly. We go at a pace that is adaptive to everyone. There is also time at other parts of the day for students to finish any work they might've gotten behind on.
These pages the students brought home also have pages that are not done. There are pages that I do not see as a good fit to our learning in the classroom and we will skip over. However, they are excellent pages to continue doing at home for extra practice. Please try not to recycle and instead encourage your child to put in a safe place to bring out to do through the week or weekend. You will see these packets come home every Friday or even every other Friday.
Thank you for your continued support!