Literacy activity: Procedure Writing

Dear Parents/Guardians,

In the next couple of days, your child will be starting a Procedure Writing Unit. One of

the tasks in this unit is shared procedural writing. Your child will work together to come up with

a list of procedures. I would like to try and create fun ways for the students to learn new

concepts and we are very lucky that the holiday season is coming up. For this activity, each

table group will be given a gingerbread house kit with no instructions. They will then have to

work together as a group to come up with a list of procedures for how to create the perfect

gingerbread house.

We would gladly take donations from parents to subsidize  the cost of a gingerbread

house kit ($2-3 per students). Any and all donations will be greatly appreciated.  Students will

not be eating the houses; however, it is a nut free kit. If you have any questions or concerns

about this activity, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Literacy: Making Connections

In literacy, we have been learning about Making Connections. We started by discussing how we all have different life experiences, memories and how the story of our life will help us to understand the story that we are reading. 

We also read couple stories together and wrote a paragraph about Making Connections. 

There were several things that needed to be included in the paragraph:

1. The title of a book and author's name

2. Identify the connection (Text to Text, Text to Self, Text to World)

3. Restate the part of the text with a page number from the book 

4. Explain the connection in detail 

5. Explain how making connection helped to understand the text better