It has been just over a month since the first day of school, and I am so happy to say that the students seem to have settled into a room which looks quite different from what they have been used to so far. While the desks are far apart, the children still have many "socially distant" ways of interacting with each other. 

We started our year with a unit on realistic fiction and studied all the four elements of fiction in detail. The students enjoyed learning about character traits and tried their hand at describing their own personalities. I would say they were quite accurate in assessing themselves!

Our next unit is on informational texts. Students examined the difference between fiction and nonfiction and will soon learn how to identify main idea and supporting details. 

In the meantime, we are also working on building up our vocabulary and spelling skills.