One Hundred Thirty-Fifth Day of School

Math quiz tomorrow.

Reading Logs due Friday.

We are planning our first opinion piece. Many students will begin the script portion of their PSA's as well as write creative plays for performance.

One Hundred Thirty-Third Day of School

In Science today we learned about air propulsion and experimented with our ideas on how to put it to use. Be advised, students will be sent home with an untied balloon in their backpacks. they have been instructed to not put the balloon to their mouth.

One Hundred Thirty-First Day of School

We will be working on our final writing unit and our final project in these last weeks of 1st grade before Open House.

Our final official writing genre will be persuasive/opinion writing. We will begin the unit forming and supporting opinions. Next we will write reviews (books, restaurants, games, etc.). Finally, we will write letters of appeal (time permitting). Today we learned the meaning of argument as it pertains to persuasive writing. Our final writing assessment will be to produce one of these products of  persuasion.

For our final project, the students will be producing a public service announcement which will be saved to their electronic portfolio. The area of study will be either health or environmental science. Students will choose from among the following topics:

• Recycling
• Composting
• Smoking
• Exercise
• Nutrition
• Bullying
• Candy Surplus

Most students have already chosen a topic and have been provided research which they will take notes from and develop into an informative piece. They will repurpose their informative piece into a script which will be taped. It has been suggested to students that they may provide their own additional research on their topic (most likely with parent assistance) to be brought into class (preferably in a note taking format).

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