Your child is coming home with an animal to research during our Writer’s Workshop time. Please help your child gather facts from books or the internet. It would be great if he/she could bring in printed papers to use in class. Here are a couple of great websites with kid friendly articles to help you with gathering information: http://a-z-animals.com/,  http://www.softschools.com/facts/animals/, or  http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/

We will be doing lots of research work in class, but any help you can give your child at home would be wonderful.  Please let me know if you have trouble gathering information, so that I can help them here at school.