About the Artists

Our reading story this week is Just Like Me.  We read about different artists and how they created self portraits to express themselves. We read books in the classroom about many famous artist, including Pablo Picasso, Vincent VanGogh, Grant Wood, and Mary Cassatt.  We are creating our own self portraits and writing autobiographies.  Students are typing autobiographies, and they will be graded on the following criteria: 

Brief Autobiography

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Sentences are not provided,  and/or errors in spelling and punctuation make work unreadable	Sentences are not clear and have major errors in punctuation and/or spelling	Several errors in sentence clarity, punctuation, and spelling	The majority of sentences are detailed and clear with proper spelling and punctuation	All sentences are detailed and clear with proper spelling and punctuation
Paragraph does not contain information about life’s influence in relation to self portrait.	Paragraphs contains very little information about life’s influence in relation to self portrait	Paragraph contains adequate information about life’s influence in relation to self portrait	Fairly descriptive paragraph about life’s influences in relation to self portrait	Very descriptive paragraph about life’s influences in relation to self portrait

We studied spelling words with er, ar, and or endings.  We completed Unit 17 workbook pages.  Here's the link to Spelling City for Unit 17 Spelling games:

Spelling City

This week we also worked on possessive and reflexive pronouns, completing practice workbook pages 96 and 101.  Here's a link to explain reflexive pronouns: 

http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/reflexive_pronouns.htm 

Another skill we are learning is Steps in a Process.  Here are some activities you can have your child do at home to practice Steps in a Process:

Steps in a Process Activities