Mrs. Rausch's Class

Friday, January 18, 2013

Happy Friday!

We had a busy week! We finished our Lead 21 theme "Earth's Treasures" today. Next week we will begin an inquiry project using the website neok12. Groups of students will be responsible for choosing one of Earth's Treasures and making an online book about that treasure! I hope to have these books posted by next Friday!!

This week, students answered

"What can we do to care for Earth?"

We discovered that there are many things that we can do to protect Earth's natural resources. We can recycle, conserve energy/water, pick up trash at parks and outside, walk and ride our bike instead of driving cars, plant trees and vegetables, etc.

In Math we have begun discussing animals weights. We have compared them, ordered them based on their weights, used tens/ones cubes to show weights, used calculators to add two animals weights together! Whew! We were busy!!!

In writing, we read a book called "Mouse Views." We wrote two stories. The first story was describing something that we viewed in our classroom. The second story was written after we took a "mouse walk" around school and observed various classrooms, the hallway, and the lunchroom. Each student chose something to write about. Their stories began.... "We took a walk around school. I saw something cool!" They continued by giving clues about what they viewed and we had to guess what their object was!! Many of the things we chose to write about were found in either the music, pe, or art rooms!!

Next Week . . .

Monday - Friday DIBELS Testing

Monday: Art

* Martin Luther King Jr.

Tuesday: Music

Wednesday: 3 Hour Early Out
* Book Orders Due *

Thursday: Library
* Mrs. Wilson's Last Day *
Special Snack: Cloey

Friday: PE

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, January 18, 2013

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