Monday News

Dear Families,

Hike Day is Tuesday! Please send your child to school with comfortable shoes.

I will be out on Friday and the guest teacher will be Ms. Katz.

We are starting our Star Student Week this Monday. When your child is the star student, this will be the schedule:

Monday	Share your All About Me with the class Pick activity for the day
Tuesday	Bring in your favorite picture book from home (or the library) to share with the class.    Pick activity for the day
Wednesday	Lunch Bunch Bring 3 friends
Thursday	Show and tell day.  Bring something special to school that you would like to share. Pick activity for the day
Friday	Star Student book day.  As a class, we will each create a page of your book. Each of your classmates will write something special about you.

In Writing Workshop, we are developing characters for our fiction stories. 

This is the list of advice for developing a character:

• Start with whatever you've decided matters to you about your character. Is he or she like you?
• Put together a character so that all the parts fit together into a coherent person.
• Reread often. Ask yourself, "Do these different things make sense within one person? Is it believable?"
• Make the character complex and more human by asking, "What is the downside of this trait? How does this characteristic help or hurt the character?"

Enjoy these videos of the students starting to create their characters!
SG's character
LC's character
LT's character
RB's character
JM's character
AW's character
EP's character
CM's character

Enjoy your week,

Mrs. Carter