Writing
Want to practice up on some of your grammar? Try this fun and
interactive website!
Grammar and Vocabulary Builders
Learning Vocabulary Can be Fun!
Complete Sentences
Magic Key
Adventures!
Word Study
Suffixes
| What are Suffixes? | Brainpop Movie | Prefix and Suffix Games |
| Maggie's Adventure | Matching Prefixes and Suffixes |
1:1:1 Rule
R-Controlled Words
| r-controlled vowels- game 1 | r-controlled vowels - game 2 | Write a Postcard |
| Choose Your Own Game! | Long Vowels | Sight Words |
Contractions
| Contractions 1 |
Ongoing Writing Projects
Home-School Journals
Students will be writing home to their parents each Friday in order
to tell them all about the events that took place that week in school. This is a
great way for students to learn about writing and forming paragraphs, as well as
a great way for parents to show interest in what is happening in school. Please
feel free to correspond to your child every week by writing notes to them in the
same journal. Students love to see what parents think!
Free Writes
Students will spend a great deal of time writing stories of their own
choice. We will work together to correct these pieces using the MEA writing
rubric in combination with the Write-Traits rubric, in order for students to know what and how to improve each piece.
Pen Pal Letters
The students will write to their pen pals in Easton, Maine throughout the school
year. Our goal is to help students learn more about the various communities
around Maine, as well as teach others about their own. Those who choose to, will also be giving their pen pals their home addresses in hopes that they
can continue to write to each other over the summer.
Future Writing Projects
Endangered Animal Reports
One of our major
writing projects consists of combining our research and writing skills to write an
endangered animal report on an animal from a land biome. The students do all
of the researching and writing in the classroom. Some of the research that was
done was through websites below.
Helping your child locate endangered animals
from the Rain Forest? Try these websites:
Endangered Animals of
the World Rainforestweb.org
Bagheera
Animals of
the Asian Rainforest Animals
of the South American Rainforest
Interested in finding out more? Check out some of the websites that are
available!
Park Street Biome
Page MBGnet
Earth
Floor Land
Biomes
Upon completion of these projects, students will have an endangered animal showcase afternoon. Parents
and friends will be invited into the classroom to see our habitat boxes and
learn more about what they can do to save this animal from becoming extinct!
Classroom Yearbook
The students will also be working on a classroom yearbook. We will be writing
about all the adventures that have taken place in our classroom over the year,
as well as include pictures and a spot for people to write their final goodbyes
to KES, before they move on to Sea Road.
