Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Written by: Beverly Cleary Illustrated by: Tracy Dockray Genre: Humorous fiction Target Skill: Understanding Characters Target Strategy: Infer / Predict  Essential Question: What clues in a story help you understand its characters? Big Idea: Facing a challenge helps us grow. Read Alouds Tia Luisa’s Fruit Salad Guided Reading Books  Kitchen Science Fifi’s Bath Trouble with…

Written by: Robert H. Bushyhead Illustrated by: Kristina Rodanas Genre: Legend Target Skill: Compare and Contrast – tell how details and ideas are alike or different Target Strategy: Analyze / Evaluate – think about what you read, and form an opinion about it Essential Question:  How might people change after facing a challenge? Big Idea: Facing a…

 Summary Abandoned by her mother years ago, Opal (AnnaSophia Robb), a 10-year-old girl, moves with her preacher father (Jeff Daniels) to a small town in Florida. Lonely and missing her old friends, Opal is ecstatic to find companionship with a rambunctious little dog she names Winn-Dixie, after the store where she found the pup. With…

Life on the Ice INFORMATIONAL TEXT by Susan E. Goodman — photographs by Michael J. Doolittle    Target Vocabulary: shelter, layer, constant, climate, wilderness, region, unexpected, gliding, overheated, colony  Vocabulary Strategy: Using a dictionary/glossary  Phonics Skills: Compound words  Comprehnsion Skills: Main ideas and details — tell important ideas and details about a topic  Comprehension Strategy:…

Written by: Arthur Dorros Illustrated by: S.D. Schindler Genre: Informational Text Target Skill: Text and Graphic Features – tell how words and photos work together  Target Strategy: Question – ask questions before you read, while you read, and after you read Essential Question: How can pictures and labels give you more information? Big Idea: Our world is an…

  Please be at the school no later than 5:30 on Friday to pick up your child from the SeaWorld trip.  Park in the teacher parking lot (by the front  office) and walk to the bus loop.  Please do not park in the bus loop!  Please let us know when you are taking your child…

                                               We look forward to our annual field trip to SeaWorld on December 11th.  Thank you to all the parents who signed up to chaperone!  Please make sure you have gone onto ADDitions…

Stellaluna is separated from her mom and finds a bird family to live with and adapt to. Stellaluna Read Aloud                                   Top 10 Unknown Facts About Bats       Click the question to play an online Stellaluna reading…

Reading: Technology Wins the Game Genre –  Trickster Tale Fluency: Stress Comprehension: Point of View Writing: Informative Writing Grammar: Writing Quotations Vocab. Strategies: Idioms Phonics: Homophones; word endings -er, and -le Math 2-1 Problem Solving 2-2 Use Picture Graphs 2-3 Make Picture Graphs Mid Chapter Checkpoint 2-4 Use Bar Graphs 2-5 Make Bar Graphs 2-6…