This Year’s Sight Words

Scholastic Reading Club: Students can order books from Scholastic Reading Club throughout the year.  Use the code “H3VKR” to access our class account. Each time a student orders, we get points to order free books for our class library!  Use the link in the left side bar or this link to begin ordering today.

Some of the tools we’ll use in math this year are Pattern Blocks. Use the digital version at this link for some extra fun at home!

This week, we’ll be discussing the positives and negatives of many different tools we can use to collect entries in our Writer’s Notebook.  We’ll also be trying them out to see what is just “write” for us!  Authors have to many decisions every time they write about what tool(s) is best for their writing.  Jan Berenstain, of The Berenstain Bears books, said “We use pencils to begin with. We also use Flair pens, often different colors to color-code the layouts. Once we get past the layout stage, we use India inks and old-fashioned pens where you put the nib in the holder. We don’t like some of the new kinds of pens – partly because we’re old-fashioned and stuck in our ways, but partly because we think it’s important to be able to vary the weight of the lines and you can’t do that with the mechanical pens. For coloring, we use a liquid watercolor that comes in bottles, called Dr. Martin’s Dyes. They’re very clear, very transparent, very bright, and we love them dearly.” when asked about what type of tools she uses to illustrate her books