Beta

In ELA with Ms Andrea…our reading & writing was on the pumpkin life cycle. We read about it, summed it up (aka: “gist”), planned our writing and then wrote about it in our own words! Afterwards we illustrated. In Phonics, we reviewed the digraphs /ch/ and /sh/. We read leveled readers and practiced answering comprehension questions in full sentences. We also had our first vocabulary quiz on our words of the week: dash and rush. Let’s just say they finished it “in a dash” with no need to rush – they did wonderfully! Our sight words were: come, for and

Week of September 21st Thank you so much to the Austin Geological Society for enriching our theme! Also…Happy Birthday Justin!!! Thanks for sharing a treat with us :) In ELA with Ms Andrea…This week our reading & writing was on geese! Together, we read an informational text called A Goose Migrates. Next, we dissected the reading to determine its “gist.” Then we turned our attention to our prompt of the week, which specifically asked about goslings. I am so proud of our young writers’ tenacity as we work to build their writing stamina. They worked hard and produced wonderful paragraphs

Inner space caverns!!! In ELA with Ms Andrea… the topic of our reading for this short week was topography! Our Betas learned why topographers make special maps, all that their job entails, and who uses topographic maps. After reading, we summarized the text and analyzed a prompt, then planned our response to it. Next week we’ll continue by organizing our notes and writing out our response. As mentioned at Parent Support Night, the steps of our writing process are designed to teach students how to decipher meaning from a text, and to interpret and respond to writing prompts. Familiarity with

Beta’s first library visit!!! Thank you Victoria for making the library experience smooth and exciting for both the students and teachers! In ELA with Ms Andrea…This week we finished up our reading & writing on topography! Together, we outlined our response to the prompt: “What do topographers do?” and wrote a paragraph. In Phonics, we reviewed the word families with the short /i/ sound, including: in, im, ip, it, and ig. Ms. Emma’s ELA group…worked through the first 2 steps of the writing process (P and O) using our prompt about the ways animals are constantly changing. LIke always, we