Explaining How to Wash our Hands

Our current writing focus is on explanation writing. Students have been working to add to our writing criteria as well as think about how to explain something they are good at. Today we read a story about personal hygiene and focused on how and why we wash our hands. We did a shared reading of the story using our SmartBoard. Students took turns reading and demonstrating some of their reading strategies. We are working as a class on pointing to the words while we read! This is what good readers do so that they can focus on each word in the story.

Students will be writing a rough draft using the explanation writing criteria. Next week we will write a good copy using an app on the iPads!

Our goal is to write how to wash our hands, why it is important and to add pictures with captions. Today we learned that the captions next to the pictures give extra important information. Ask your child what they learned about why it is important to wash their hands!