Bullard's Bulletin Dear Parents & Students!
Wow! Last week flew by with such a short week! Super excited to jump into learning this week. Topics this week: Reading AND Writing: I am so amazed at how fast students absorbed their books for book club this nine weeks. So many groups were so excited about their books that they read them even faster than our goals! Many groups are choosing to ready another book in the series, if they chose a book that has a sequel. The next couple of weeks we will be also working on taking the BAS assessment and this is done one on one with the teacher. Thanks so much for continuing to support your child's love of reading by getting them a copy of the book they chose to read for book club. These books are on their individual reading levels. Last week students learned about the non-fiction text structures (description, compare & contrast, cause & effect, chronological order, and problem & solution). At the end of each lesson we did a Kahoot to review each days text structure. I have also been reading aloud a book titled Fantastic Failures and through this read aloud students have been able to identify a variety of text structures. We have currently read about Oprah Winfrey, and will be reading about J.K. Rowling, , and Nelson Mandela. Students will have an assessment on text features on Friday. For our essays, we have completed all of our lessons on how to write an informational essay (intro, body, and conclusion). We will continue to review but now that we have done these lessons students will work on their Write Score essays on informational writing for Fulton County this week. This is a Fulton County assessment. You can find notes and info on our website as well as Google Classroom. Students will also continue to work on the informational essays for their magazine after we finish Write Score. Grammar: We are learning about affixes. We will continue learning about the affix "graph." Take notices of when you use words with these affix at home. Reminders:
That's all for now! Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns by emailing me directly at [email protected]. Have a wonderful week! Dave Bullard Dolvin Elementary School E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://bullard5.weebly.com Twitter: @dolvinbullard
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February 4th-8th
2/4/2019 Hello Parents! I hope you had a great weekend and enjoyed watching the Super Bowl! The Patriots win another one... Topics this week: Reading AND Writing: We are continuing to create goals, read uninterruptedly in class, and answer questions with our book club books! Thank you so much for supporting your child's love of reading by talking with them about their book selection. I will be meeting with the students and ask them what THEY wanted to learn and accomplish in our Informational Reading and Writing Unit. We will look at the reading and writing standards and come up with a magazine project that we will begin the early stages of this week. Students will have the opportunity to choose their magazine project topic. The project will include an informational essay about their topic and then use the non fiction text features and structures in mini articles about their topic. We will begin narrowing down our topics and writing an introduction for our essays this week. We will also be comparing informational reading to fiction reading and analyze text features in a non fiction text. Grammar: This week we will review relative pronouns and adverbs. We will have a quiz this week on these topics. As we read an informational text, we will also review synonyms and antonyms and use context clues when coming across unknown vocabulary words. Reminders:
That's all for now! Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns by emailing me directly at [email protected]. Have a wonderful week! Mr. Bullard |
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