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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