Mrs. Rausch's Class

Friday, October 26, 2012

Character Counts Week

We had a fun week dressing up for Character Counts! Thanks for your participation in making this a fun and eventful week!

Lead 21

We culminated our discussions of "On The Move" and how the world changes. I hope your child's project is going well! Remember to send these back to school before Tuesday so I have time to display them in the hallway for PT Conferences!!

Next week we will begin a new unit of study: "In My Neighborhood." The first question we will address is "What is a Community?"

Math

We continued talking about numbers, number patterns, odd & even, and we reviewed telling time to the nearest hour. Next week we will look more closely at telling time to the half hour.

Social Studies

We continued discussing Families & Neighbors. This is a nice introduction for our new Lead 21 Unit. We also discussed All About Earth and viewed maps, diagrams, and globes! Students found it interesting to try and find Iowa on a map!

A Look at Next Week:

Monday: Art

* Report Cards will be Sent Home

Tuesday: Music

* 1 Hour Early Out

* PT Conferences

* Projects Due

Wednesday: PBIS Fall Party

(Please remember to bring costumes!)

* Happy Halloween *

* October Book It Due (for Pizza Hut)

Thursday: Library

* 1 Hour Early Out

* PT Conferences

* Book Orders Due *
* Special Snack: Tristan *

Friday: NO SCHOOL

PT COMPENSATION DAY

Reading Strategies

Determine Important Information

When students read, they should pick out the most important ideas. The most important ideas are the ones the author wants readers to remember.

Compare and Contrast

When we compare certain things, we tell how they are alike or the same. When we contrast things, we tell how they are different!!

Make Inferences

Making inferences helps readers make sense of what they read. Sometimes the author doesn't tell us everything we need to understand. We can use clues in the story and what we already know to help fill in gaps which the author has left in the text. This is called MAKING INFERENCES!

Identify Text Structure

Stories are set up in different ways. They usually are told in sequence, or the order in which events happen. Knowing how a story is set up, or its structure, can help a reader remember the story.

Identify Details & Facts

Finding small bits of information that tells us more about important ideas.

Making Predictions

Using clues from the story and what you already know to guess what will happen next.

Summarize

Tell in your own words what has happened in the story or text.

Ask and Answer Questions

Asking questions and looking for answers in the text or pictures will help you to understand what you read!

Facts and Opinions

Facts and be proven! They are TRUE!

Opinions are people's thoughts. They might not be true! When giving an opinion, you might hear "I think...."

Monitor Comprehension

Stop and think about what you are reading. Are you understanding what you are reading? If not, use an accuracy strategy to help.

Recall and Retell

Tell about the setting, characters and most important events in the beginning, middle, and end of the text. Readers gain a better understanding of what a story is about when they can recall events from a story.

Make Connections

Use what you already know to understand what you are reading. We use text to text connections. We use text to self connections. And we use text to world connections.

Mrs. Rausch's Class

Friday, October 26, 2012

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