Book Review Fun!

We've been having fun with reading this week in Room 20!  We've been working on forming and supporting our opinions as we read - just like in writing essays!  Book reviews are a way for us to recommend a new reading adventure to our classmates and support our recommendation with reasons to convince others.  Enjoy the work of Sydney, Elizabeth, Katie, Sam, Nate, & Dylan!

Our Week

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What an awesome week! We've enjoyed being together in the New Year and we've learned a lot too!

For reading, we are working on sharing our opinions and backing them up with evidence. We've written opinion essays about characters in our books in Google letters! (You can check them out in our Google Drive. Feel free to respond with your feedback!). Some of us are in book clubs and others are working on creating video book reviews (like Ryann & Ashley's below!)

We've also been doing some close reading of nonfiction! We read articles about zoos to prepare us for our next read aloud book, The One and Only Ivan. Then we had our zoo debate with Miss Farrell's class! Girls debated boys and it was a lively debate about whether or not zoos are a good idea. Debaters used evidence from the articles and counter argued the other team's points. It was a perfect way to get us ready for our next book!

We are working on fractions in math! Stay tuned for some fun how to videos!

In social studies, we've been studying the northeast region! Stay tuned for some slideshows of Northeast landmarks!

Ryann & Ashley Dork Diaries Book Review

Check out Ryann and Ashley's video book review of Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life by Rachel Renee Russell!  These girls had a mini book club in which they read and discussed the book together and then prepared this book review to encourage others to read it.  Stay tuned for more updates on what Room 20 has been up to in addition to more video book reviews!