Category: Beth Hankoff
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Powerful Printers
April/May Summary In April we cover all the rest of the lowercase letters! Before the break, we did: p, r, n, m, h, b, and f When we return, we will finish up with q, x, and z The last two sessions (May 6 & 13) we will go over the numbers: 1-5 & 6-10.…
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Author’s Workshop
April/May Summary This is a summary of what we have done so far in April, and also a few notes about what we will be doing for the rest of the year. In April, we did lessons on Character Traits and Setting. Students also worked hard each week on finishing rough drafts of their stories…
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Powerful Printers
March Summary This month we learned the letters l, k, y, and j. We talked a lot about which letters are “tall”- going above the double lines, which letters are “small”- staying within the double lines, and which letters are “descending” – going below the double lines. This was introduced before, but placing the letters…
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Author’s Workshop
March Summary This month we learned about voice and personification. Students chose an object and wrote a short piece from that object’s point of view, telling what it likes and doesn’t like about its life. We also talked a bit about sentence fluency and editing for conventions, since this is the last part of the…
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Powerful Printers
February Summary This month we learned the letters a, d, g, u, – and we will finish the month with i and e. We also continued copying words and sentences. Our craft activities included a dragon mask, a valentine card, and our final craft will be making paper puppets and giving them “haircuts” to practice…
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Author’s Workshop
February Overview 2019 This month we discussed story endings and how to make them “excellent endings,” we took a week off from lessons to write a Valentine to someone special, and we will end the month learning about “wow words” – powerful vocabulary we can use to make our writing more interesting. In addition to…
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Powerful Printers
January Summary 2019 Our class only met twice this month, but I wanted to send you to be informed about what we’re doing. Everyone is working hard and having fun! Letters: we have practiced the lowercase letters c, o, s, v, w, and t Words: the workbook has 2- 3-letter words made with the letters…
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Author’s Workshop
January Summary 2019 This was a short month, with only 2-3 classes, depending on which site your child is attending. However, we covered some big concepts and jumped right in! Lessons: A story has a beginning, middle, and end. We read Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One by Kate Duke to find out the key…
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Powerful Printers
November/December 2018 In the last two months we learned the following letters: C, O, Q, G, S, A, I, T, and J We are now finished with all the capitals! Please continue practicing them at home. I have attached some worksheets at the end of this post. We will be moving into lowercase next semester…
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Powerful Printers
October Update: Classes 5-9 LETTERS: We finished up the Frog-Jump letters with M and N. Then we started the Starting Corner Capitals. These are letters that start in the upper-left corner, just like frog-jump letters, but then do not frog-jump back to the top. We will be finishing them up in October or early November,…