Week of April 16-20

W.A.L.T.:

• Think about who an author is as a person in our new 'Author Study' unit. 
• Notice the common features in books by the same author.
• Choose a style of writing to mimic for the Independent Writing Project.  Students will sift through baskets of books and options to come up with several ideas of what they could write. 
• Notice interesting things about books and then ask “how could I do this type of writing?”
• Complete a proposal to remember what and why they are writing. 
• Observe mineral properties
• Test minerals for hardness by using a Scratch Test