This Week - Part 2 Story Retells and Opinion Writing

We had a very busy and exciting week!

We had two field trips and the 5th grade musical amid all of our learning.

In reading we got a head start on the trimester 3 target of retelling a story.

The class read Mr. Putter and Tabby Fly a Plane. They then worked with partners to fill in a story map, use the information on the story map to write the retell, and illustrate part of the story.

The class has been doing a great job with opinion writing.

This week we wrote a paragraph with reasons that supported why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a great leader.

We read two stories, a Scholastic News magazine, and watched a short Brainpop Jr. video to research information.

This is our brainstorming sheet.  We write all of our ideas, then pick and choose the 3
reasons we will include in our paragraph.

After brainstorming, we fill in our planning sheet.
This organizes our ideas so we are reading to write.