We had a HUGE snow storm last weekend! Our town got about 21 inches (53 centimeters) of snow. In fact, because we got so much snow and the winds were over 35 miles per hour, the storm was categorized as a blizzard! Since the roads were so slippery and a lot of places lost power because of [...]

In writing we have been working on informational paragraphs about topics that interest us. The purpose of informational, or nonfiction, writing is to explain facts and share information with the reader. We have learned how to start with a topic sentence that introduces the subject of the paragraph and then add supporting sentences with details [...]

In writing we have been talking about how memories can give us great ideas to write about. We have also been working on using interesting, descriptive words (like “enormous“) in place of boring words (like “big“). * Here is a slideshow of some writing we did about special memories from this past summer. We tried to [...]

Our collaborative writing project with five other classes, the Tale Trail, starts right here! Last week the classes voted on a topic for the story and the idea with the most votes was “An underground tunnel is found under the school. It takes you to…” We are going to start the story and then Mrs. [...]

We have been reading and writing nonfiction, or informational, texts. The purpose of nonfiction texts is to explain things and give information. To write a short informational paragraph, it is important to present the information clearly. You want the reader to understand what you are explaining.  Here are the steps we used to write our [...]

We have a brand new blog by one of our classmates! Taylor has started a blog called As Told By Taylor: My story, my life, my words… Here is a a line from her welcome post, explaining what her blog will be about, “I’m so excited to tell all of you about my life and [...]

We have been focusing on adding details to our writing so the reader can visualize what is happening. We want them to feel like they are right there in the story. One way to do this is to describe how characters are feeling instead of just saying they are mad, or cold, or happy. Below [...]

We have been working on adding details to our writing so the reader can visualize our stories. Before Halloween, we wrote descriptions of strange creatures and bizarre beasts from our imaginations. Then we worked on them to add elaborative details and a variety of sentence starters. After that we illustrated our descriptions. Mr. Avery’s class in Massachusetts was [...]

We had a HUGE snow storm last week! Our town got about 18 inches (46 centimeters) of snow. Because the roads were so slippery we had no school on Wednesday and a delayed opening on Thursday. Snow days are one of the most exciting things about winter in Connecticut. The students (and teachers!) get a [...]

We have been focusing on adding details to our writing so the reader can visualize what is happening. We want them to feel like they are right there in the story. One way to do this is to describe how characters are feeling instead of just saying they are mad, or cold, or scared. Below [...]