Today students learned about the research project in our reading block. Students have been split into 5 different groups and will be researching different extreme weather topics. Topics range from hurricanes to droughts to floods and tsunamis. Be sure to ask your child about their topic today.

There are many different ways you as a parent can help. Please see the suggestions below and the class website for helpful hints.

Here are a few suggestions for gathering materials:

• Ask an adult if they will take you to the public library, our school library, or a bookstore to get a book or two on your topic.
• Conduct Internet research using a kid-friendly search engine like awesomelibrary.org, kids.gov, or americaslibrary.gov.
• Be on the lookout for articles that have to do with your topic. Ask adults to help you look through magazines and newspapers.
• Check out kids’ magazines like Time for Kids, Scholastic, National Geographic, and others. Most of these magazines also have websites.
• Look at any newspaper and you will find a section on the weather. You may even find articles that relate to weather events around the world.