For the last two weeks our class has been working on a nonfiction research project all about sharks. We read lots about sharks and students also learned the basics of researching a topic on the internet using the kid friendly search engines Kiddle and Kidrex (see earlier posts). We practiced taking notes together, paraphrasing what we had read into our own words, then students created their own individual "All About Sharks" books using the notes we had taken. Today we bound the books and kids are bringing them home for you to see! Here are photos of some of the kids binding their books as well as photos of the parts of one student's book (so you can see what went into them).
After break we will be starting some different nonfiction writing where students will learn to listen to a nonfiction text then paraphrase the information from the text to write their own nonfiction piece. We will also be moving on to our year end science unit learning about the life cycle of a chick! Hatching chicks is always an incredibly fun way to end our school year!
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