{"id":2293,"date":"2018-03-08T13:15:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T18:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/?p=2293"},"modified":"2018-03-08T13:15:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T18:15:15","slug":"thursday-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/2018\/03\/08\/thursday-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am so pleased with how my students are really making progress with their reading AND writing! They are writing several sentences all on the same topic (they begin their writing in September with a word or two for a sentence and the two words are unrelated.\u00a0 ie-&#8220;play&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;pizza&#8221;\u00a0 2 words for a sentence, not even a sentence and the words are on 2 different topics)<\/p>\n<p>I have been giving them &#8220;cold writes,&#8221; which are writes on a given topic and they write away.\u00a0 Yesterday, one of my writers wrote such an interesting Narrative that it turned into a Chapter Writing of 3 Chapters!\u00a0 Awesome vocabulary, there was a\u00a0<em>Beginning, Middle, and End<\/em> to the writing and the narrative was all on the same topic.\u00a0 I am so proud of each one of my Little Scholars.<\/p>\n<p>Today we began our morning with a reader, Mrs. Hassan, Laith&#8217;s mother.\u00a0 Take a look&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/398\/2018\/03\/Laith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2294\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/398\/2018\/03\/Laith-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/398\/2018\/03\/Laith-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/398\/2018\/03\/Laith.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just love my kids!<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is a Spelling Test.\u00a0 Practice the words tonight and keep up with the reading.\u00a0 March is Reading Month Reading Log slips are due tomorrow.\u00a0 When they turn in the reading log slip, I will give them a sticker to put on their &#8220;hand&#8221; which is on my bulletin board in the hall.<\/p>\n<p>Lots to keep you busy at home, I know.\u00a0 You are making a wise investment in your child&#8217;s life when you stay involved in their learning.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am so pleased with how my students are really making progress with their reading AND writing! They are writing several sentences all on the same topic (they begin their writing in September with a word or two for a sentence and the two words are unrelated.\u00a0 ie-&#8220;play&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;pizza&#8221;\u00a0 2 words for a sentence, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}