Monday, Nov. 21, 2016

Highlights

Strong readers have very active or busy brains.  We have been working on using our Reading Powers to help us understand fiction stories.  We are learning that great readers….

1.    Make connections between the books they read and their memories, experiences, knowledge, or other books.

2.    Ask questions (e.g., What is going to happen next?  I wonder why the character is sad?)

3.    Visualize (Make pictures or a movie in their head about what is happening in the story.)

4.    Infer (Be like a detective and use clues in the book.  Sometimes the author doesn’t tell us all the information and we have to pay attention to clues.)

5.    Thinking transforms (Sometimes what we think, or how we think, changes after we have read a story.)

We also had a “house” in our classroom for part of the afternoon.  Students in building club put it together with straws and connectors at lunch and we kept it up for part of the afternoon.  We enjoyed reading and listening to our novel (Lions at Lunchtime) while we were in the house!

Important Information   

*Farm to School fundraising order forms are due Thursday morning.  Since they are dealing with fresh vegetables, we are unable to accept late forms.

Nov. 24- Healthy Hunger Lunch (Little Caesars), School Council Meeting at 7 pm

Nov. 25- No school for students

Homework

-New spelling lists sent home (quiz on Thursday)

-Reading (please sign the home reading log)

-Practice your addition doubles and ten friends

Ask me about:

What strategies do GREAT readers use to figure out tricky words and understand the book?