Hi families!

We have been trying to keep our momentum going with our research process despite Mother Nature slowing us down these last few weeks.

Currently, students are planning for drafting by organizing their notecards into groups of main ideas. They will begin drafting next week, using their new Google Drive accounts, so you can have them log in and see their drafts from home as well!

Our big objectives right now are synthesizing notes into groups of big ideas, and then making sure we have at least 2 details – names, numbers, explanations, mini-stories, or quotes from experts – to explain each idea in our outlines. This work requires some higher-level thinking! I encourage you to talk to your children about the categories they are creating for their sub-topics and what details they are finding most interesting.