PJ Day Tomorrow

Riverside students "filled the tube" for the first time this year! Students voted to wear pajamas tomorrow!

O'NEILL & ROST  Students are learning strategies to help them think critically about characters; getting to know characters as people, understanding their personalities, etc..  Students will learn, practice, and apply strategies to help them grow ideas about characters over the next few weeks (see table below for more information).  Eventually, we want students building character theories and supporting their theories with evidence from text. 

Target Learning Goals:  To grow ideas about characters, readers can...

• ... consider time duration to distinguish between emotions and personality traits. 
• ... pay special attention to objects characters hold dear.
• ... notice and name patterns in what characters say.
• ... use patterns and thinking stems to write about characters.

TLGs in Action:

*Shapes next to quotes indicate patterns/ similarities. We use these patterns to develop new understandings of characters & texts.

MEZAN  Our main focus in Readers' Workshop this week has been learning strategies to help us infer how characters feel.  In class we explain inferring as the following: text clues + schema (background knowledge) = inference (a new idea that isn't explicitly said).  Additionally, we're working on being precise with our language; i.e., instead of mad, sad, happy, we can think/ say/ write: thrilled, anxious, despondent, heartbroken, furious, etc.. 

Target Learning Goals (TLG):

• I can use my schema plus text clues to draw inferences from texts.
• I can pay special attention to what characters say to infer ideas about how they feel.

TLGs in Action:

Reminders:

• PJ Day tomorrow
• I'll be checking planners for signatures tomorrow.  Your signature indicates your child has read 30 minutes/ school night. 
• No spelling for all classes this week.
• Get Caught Reading:  Remember to email in pictures when you "catch" your child reading!  Hadley.ONeill@hcps.org  We have about 10 pictures so far. Add to our collection! Send in those photos! 

Upcoming Dates:

• Early Dismissal: Tomorrow.  Students are dismissed at 12:30
• No School:  Wednesday, October 12, 2016
• Race for Education: Friday, Oct. 28
• Reading Week: Monday, Oct. 31 - Friday, Nov. 4.
• Book Fair Projects: All entries need to be brought to school between Monday, Oct. 24 - Wednesday, Oct. 26.  Information regarding reading week and projects will come home this Friday at the latest.
• Parent-Teacher Conferences: Monday, Nov. 7 (information to follow at a later date)

Thank you,

Mrs. O'Neill