Dear families,

This week, we have a short week with conferences on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. If you have not yet confirmed your child’s conference time with teachers, please do so as soon as you can.  As a gentle reminder, we have early release on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

We have begun our in-depth research project in reading and writing – our first unit of the third quarter. Students are still reading fiction novels on their own, and completing Thinkmarks to show their thinking, but our focus in class time from now until March 6 is conducting an organized research study, then synthesizing and turning new learning into a research paper.

Please ask your child what his or her research topic and question is: everyone has chosen his or her BIG question that will guide the research process. If you have time to bring your child to the public library to search for more resources, that would be helpful! Please stay tuned as I will be posting the research rubric soon, which I will use to evaluate students’ research papers at the end of our unit.

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