The students have been working on their new Language unit: Non-Fiction.  To start, they have been looking at different text features found in non-fiction books.  If you have any non-fiction books at home, see if your child can identify some of the features.  They are learning that we read non-fiction writing differently than fiction stories.  Ask your child why we read non-fiction books.  Today, they looked through magazines to look for text features and cut and pasted the text features they found.  We will continue to look at text features before they start responding to non-fiction books and writing their own non-fiction reports.  We have also started a new Math unit: Fractions.  Today, we looked at what the denominator and numerator represent.  Ask your child what a half, quarter, or third means.