Mrs. Lear's Class 2020-2021

  Classroom Blog November 20, 2020 Reminder:  Please take your child’s temperature in the morning for health screening. Meeting Sign UP If at any time you would like to meet please send me an email and I would be happy to meet with you at 8:30am.  Virtual Book Fair Here is the link for our Virtual Scholastic Book Fair!  There are videos of staff reading books, there is a sign in where they can enter to win a prize and videos of some of the books available through Scholastic! https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l9jYvQ3UyJJpwv2k78Hn7AfB8lp_rnwnuSEfo6XEJ2M/present Here is the link directly to the website: https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bookfairs/cptoolkit/homepage.do?method=homepage&url=brownelementaryschool22 Reading This week we will be working on identifying story elements and summarizing a text instead of doing a full retelling.  I am encouraging students to do a two page recording of their reading on the My Guided Readers website. The link is in G...

  Classroom Blog November 13, 2020 Reminder:  Please take your child’s temperature in the morning for health screening. Meeting Sign UP If at any time you would like to meet please send me an email and I would be happy to meet with you at 8:30am.  Homework  read for 20 minutes each night. Half of the reading time should be out loud.  A homework slip will go home Monday We will be be writing a turkey research essay . Here is the link for our Virtual Scholastic Book Fair!  There are videos of staff reading books, there is a sign in where they can enter to win a prize and videos of some of the books available through Scholastic! https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l9jYvQ3UyJJpwv2k78Hn7AfB8lp_rnwnuSEfo6XEJ2M/present Here is the link directly to the website: https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bookfairs/cptoolkit/homepage.do?method=homepage&url=brownelementaryschool22 Reading We will be finishing our focus on sequence of events and identifying the importa...

  Classroom Blog November 6, 2020 Reminder:  Please take your child’s temperature in the morning for health screening. Meeting Sign UP If at any time you would like to meet please send me an email and I would be happy to meet with you at 8:30am. I will send out a link as needed. I will also have other times available on Thursday of next week if that works better for you. Just email me with your availability. Homework  read for 20 minutes each night. Half of the reading time should be out loud.  A homework slip will go home Monday We will be finishing our three Paragraph Thanksgiving essays by Wednesday . Social Studies We finished reading Trader’s In Time and learning about the different groups of Native Americans that lived in our part of Michigan.  I think all the students enjoyed the book and delving into Michigan history.  Reading   Next week we start working on a new comprehension strategy. We will be looking at the sequence of events and ide...

  Classroom Blog October 30, 2020 Reminder:  Please take your child’s temperature in the morning for health screening. Meeting Sign UP If at any time you would like to meet please send me an email and I would be happy to meet with you at 8:30 am. I will send out a link as needed. Homework  read for 20 minutes each night. Half of the reading time should be out loud.  A homework slip will go home Monday . Social Studies We are reading Trader’s In Time and learning about the different groups of Native Americans that lived in our part of Michigan.  Reading Readers Theater group 1 Readers Theater group 2 Readers Theater group 3 Readers Theatre group 4 Readers Theater Group 5   I am encouraging students to do a two page recording of their reading on the My Guided Readers website. The link is in Google Classroom. Writing Students will be  working on writing a three paragraph essay about Thanksgiving over the next few weeks. The assignment will be on Go...

  Classroom Blog October 23, 2020 Reminder:  Please take your child’s temperature in the morning for health screening. Meeting Sign UP If at any time you would like to meet please send me an email and I would be happy to meet with you at 8:30am. I will send out a link as needed. Homework  read for 20 minutes each night. Half of the reading time should be out loud.  A homework slip will go home Monday . Science  We are finishing  our first unit, Power of Flower.  We are making connections and writing paragraphs about what we have learned.  Reading Next week students will be focusing on presentation and fluency by doing readers theater.   I am encouraging students to do a two page recording of their reading on the My Guided Readers website. The link is in Google Classroom. Writing Students are working on writing science paragraphs and will be continuing with some free writing time next week.  Math This week we move into our ...

  C lassroom Blog October16, 2020 Reminder:  Please take your child’s temperature in the morning for health screening. Meeting Sign UP If at any time you would like to meet please send me an email and I would be happy to meet with you at 8:30am. I will send out a link as needed. Homework  read for 20 minutes each night. Half of the reading time should be out loud.  Math test corrections A homework slip will go home on Tuesday so students will know daily expectations . Science  We are continuing  our first unit, Power of Flower.  The students and I are very thankful for the apples that were sent in for our science experiment.  Reading We continue our learning on understanding Main Idea. We are diving into our text and looking for clues and learning strategies to help us find the main idea in a text.  I am also encouraging students to stick with one book and read it cover to cover.  Writing Students are working on writing a nonfic...

  Classroom Blog October 9, 2020 Reminder:  Please take your child’s temperature in the morning for health screening. Conference Sign UP Thank you for spending the time to meet with me. I enjoyed meeting all of you. At any time if you would like to meet please send me an email and we can set up a Google Meet.  Homework Type “Monster Scene” story on Google Docs  read for 20 minutes each night. Half of the reading time should be out loud.  IXL Third grade C. 6-10,  D.1-4 Social Studies We finished our study of the 5 themes of geography and are switching to our first science unit. Science  We are starting our first unit, Power of Flower Reading We have been focusing our learning on understanding Asking and Answering Questions . We are diving into our text and looking to ask meaningful questions and find the answers within the text.  I am also encouraging students to stick with one book and read it cover to cover.  Writing Once again w...