newsletter 13

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March 19, 2010

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First Grade Library

Portfolio Day

Audubon Group 2

Water Bottles

•opportunities for parents to

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•Send in a water bottle

As the days get warmer, please

volunteer

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•Dress your child for the

send in refillable and reusable

•Plan to come in at least one

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weather.

water bottles that your child

am to share books with your

Thursday, June 3

Thursday, March 25

can drink from during the day.

child. May 3-7

READING WORKSHOP: CHARACTER CLUBS What are your character’s traits? Who are secondary characters? Do you and your character share any personality traits? How do you infer what a character is thinking and/or feeling? These are some of the questions that we have been exploring in our character clubs. Your children have been working in cooperative groups around certain characters. They share materials, books, ideas, questions and thoughts. They have become experts on their character. They made some Venn diagrams to compare themselves to their characters and the main characters to secondary characters. The students discussed the physical traits of their character as well as the character traits and provided proof for each trait from the text. We began learning to infer: making a thinking guess about how a character is feeling by considering proof from the text. Yes, your children can do this! We played a fun game, in which a student steps out of the room. The rest of the group comes up with a feeling. The student reenters the room and the others provide proofs or clues for the feeling (example: When it is my birthday, when someone compliments me, when I am with my friends. These are clues for the feeling, happy.) Then the student can guess: “ I infer the feeling is...” They love this game and they are getting very good at identifying the feelings based on the clues.

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Physical Traits Students created their own self-portraits in the style of Todd Parr before they looked at the physical traits of their characters.


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