Dear families,

if you have seen my last couple of blog posts, you have seen that I am updating on all of my classes and once again, I apologize for taking so long in between updates!

Students completed their realistic fiction stories that they worked hard to write – following a story mountain, building tension, and ending with a resolution or denouement that shows a theme as their main character learned a lesson. We have since received our shiny new Chromebooks, which makes life very easy for us! We are using Google Classroom for most of our assignments now; I encourage you to ask your child to show you our Google Classroom page as well as their writing folder in their Google Drive account. I think you will be impressed with how skillfully they can navigate these technologies independently already, and you will be able to see all of the work that we have been doing in class. We are so lucky to have the opportunity to use these machines!

As you will see if you have them show you our Google Classroom page and/or their writing folder, we have begun a new unit called Real-Fantasy-Real, a sub-genre of fantasy like the story Jumanji (and many others) in which the characters find themselves in a fantasy world and then must escape the fantasy world for some reason. We are presently in the planning phase,  and students have immensely creative ideas for their stories. I hope you will ask them to tell you about their story ideas! Perhaps they will even “share” their draft with you on Google Drive once we start drafting (if you have a Google Drive account). 🙂

Thanks for your continued support, and as always, please don’t hesitate to email me if you have any questions!