BOKS UPDATE, Book Orders Due, Planting Fun and Narrative Non-Fiction!

Boks Update:

The last day of BOKS will be Thursday, June 14th. 

Reminder: Book orders are due online or by cheque and order forms by this Friday, June 8th. This is the last order for the school year! 


Reminder: Monday, June 11 from 10-11 we will be taking a walking field trip to our wetlands to look for signs of insects. We will be using bug boxes, magnifying glasses, and pond dipping! We require 3 volunteers. If you are able to join us on this adventure please email imlagrana@cbe.ab.ca




Narrative Non-Fiction:

We are looking at three different types of text and their text features. 
Non-Fiction
Fiction
Narrative Non-Fiction

Today we investigated text features of Non-Fiction books. We had to look at a page or two from a non-fiction book and find the clues (text features) that made us think it was a non-fiction book and not a fiction or narrative fiction book. 

We learned some new non-fiction text features and then practiced being detectives to find these features in our insect non-fiction classroom books:

We then uploaded a video or a picture of our book to IRIS, with an explanation of what clues we had found that had helped us to determine if our book was, in fact, non-fiction text. Please go and watch my video or look at my picture and comment in IRIS. 

We have also been talking about NARRATIVE NONFICTION:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFrm7lxryB8

Tomorrow we will be practicing turning a page of our Non-Fiction insect book into a Narrative Fiction story! 


Amazing Insect Videos

We also had some time to go onto National Geographic Kids and look at some very interesting insect videos! Tak a moment and explore some more at home. Tomorrow we will aim to make a decision about what Alberta Insect we would like to research.  


https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals/hubs/insects/

Planting FUN!!

Today we did some top secret planting for top secret reasons!! Don't ask me any questions!!!!

James and the Giant Peach

We are now on Chapter 19 of James and the Giant Peach: Ask me what is going on right now in the book?