Pinecrest EL Classes

Kindergarten​

Kindergarten students have been sequencing stories. That means…”In order!” call out all the students.
We put the story in order and then talk about what is happening in each picture. We use pictures, flashcards, and sight words to make sentences. Then we write them.

Have you seen a book come home?

1st Grade

First Grade students practice story retelling. We use complete sentences when we speak to enhance academic speaking and writing. Our written story boards help us write the main ideas. We also add describing words to our writing. We will be learning about habitats in January. 

2nd Grade

Second Grade students practice story retelling. We use complete sentences when we speak to enhance academic speaking and writing. Our written storyboards help us write the main ideas. We will add describing words to our writing to show the detailing in our pictures. Here I Am, by Patti Kim, is a wordless book that anyone can read. It also gives power to those who are underrepresented in their community by sharing this story.

         3rd Grade

 3rd Grade EL students are reading and writing about different kinds of bird's nests. They are learning how to write an organized and detailed paragraph this year. Ask them about our new words:

• species
• common
  
• unusual
  
• several
  
• moss
  

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            4th Grade

Fourth Graders are getting ready for Middle School by perfecting a paragraph writing strategy. Big pictures become our main idea and main sentence. Labeling the picture is a way to find our supporting details. Ending the paragraph is the hardest thing to do, but not if we have a thesaurus on hand. We find new ways to tell the main idea again. A picture perfect paragraph!