Dear families,
in our Global Read-Aloud this week, we are discussing symbolism and how the author of Fish creates symbols in her book. We are making connections with the symbols in the books A Long Walk to Water and Inside Out and Back Again. Students have been coming up with some insightful ideas about what symbols are and what the symbols in the books represent. I recommend asking your child about this concept – you’d be surprised with what he/she has come up with!
In writing this month, we are excited that NaNoWriMo has begun! It’s not too late to register your child! Here’s the website. We will be having mini-workshops on Mondays throughout the rest of the month to guide kids, but as I have mentioned most of their work will be at home on this project. Happy writing!
In writing today, we started a new program for spelling and vocabulary that has a higher level of challenge than the spelling lists that we were using before. The list is attached below; students will be asked to complete 1-2 activities per night and tests will be on Mondays as before. In these tests, though, students will be asked to use the words from the list in context instead of merely spelling them correctly as before.