Another beautiful October week! I love it. In our fiction unit, we're reading Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and exploring character traits. We're paying attention to what characters do, say, think, and feel, and what that reveals to us about the character. Luckily Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing has some really strong characters, so it's easy to apply this focus to the book. We'll start writing responses about characters next week, which will eventually lead us to a project on a character from a book of choice. In writing, we talked about writing hooks to start off our personal narrative in order to engage our readers. We looked at some samples of popular books and how authors hooked the reader using dialogue, onomatopoeia, vivid verbs, a question, etc. In social studies, we did more US geography practice and retook the states quiz from the beginning of the year. Everyone showed immense improvement! In a few weeks we'll start a road trip across the US project.

Our Bucket Fillers of the week were Bianca and James. Bianca is a pro at annotating texts. She also has such a positive attitude and works hard. James is a pro at the states...and capitals! We raced on one of the state capitals games on my website and he was able to get a faster time than me! Go James :)