Dear Families, A Snow Day, New Bedford Symphony Orchestra field trip, Beauty and the Beast performance, and the 5th grade Wax Museum are just a few events that occurred this past week. At All-School Meeting on Wednesday, we had a student participate in a comedy sketch and two fourth graders helped to kick off the 1st grade Bookworm. As predicted, the week before break was a busy one! Below are a few curriculum highlights: Language Arts We have been using a program called Framing Your Thoughts to enhance our writing. Framing Your Thoughts teaches the fundamentals of sentence writing and paragraph development. The past few weeks we have been taking barebone sentences and adding predicate expanders. A barebone sentence would be The dog runs. Expanding the predicate adds more information about the action and creates a visual in the reader’s mind. Predicate expanders tell us more about the Where? Why? When? and How?. Students have also practiced adding physical characteristics to the subject. Each student added two predicate expanders and two physical descriptions to the barebone sentence: The dog runs. Here is what they came up with:
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I hope everyone has a wonderful spring break! Warmly, Brigid Comments are closed.
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