Today was a full day of learning. We took the afternoon to begin our non-fiction books and narrowed our five expert topics to three we believed we could teach others about through a book. The children revisited the features of a non-fiction text and focused on starting their books with one topic (subject) and introducing their teaching points through the table of contents (headers). Tomorrow we will work on creating the headers for each page and planning our most important facts.
The second part of our afternoon consisted of exploring maps, keys, the compass rose, and creating a map of our classroom. The children did a great job thinking about the most important parts of our classroom and creating a key. I issued them a challenge...if you have time tonight ask your child to create a map of his/her room...it may encourage some impromptu spring cleaning to make the mapping easier! Happy Thursday!
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