Mrs. Rausch's Class

Thursday, February 14, 2013

We Welcome our newest addition to class 1B! On Tuesday, our class will gain another student. Her name is Susie and she will be joining us from Lime Springs Elementary!

Tortillas for Dinner

Read by Kaiya

First grade students left for Cedar Falls on Tuesday. We attended the play "Guess How Much I Love You?" at Gallagher Bluedorn. The play was more of a puppet type show where they had life-size puppets to play the part of each character. After the play was over, we hopped back on our stage bus and headed to UNI Dome where we ate lunch! The class was excited to be able to watch movies and use the restroom while on the bus! We had a great time!

Good luck to our wrestlers! We cheered on the three How-Winn wrestlers moments before they left for Des Moines! Check it out!!

Thanks to all parents for making time to attend parent teacher conferences! Out of 15 students, 17 conferences were held! Awesome job to all of you for your perfect attendance! It was great meeting with you and discussing your child's academic and social progress. Please let me know as the year concludes if there are any questions or comments that might arise!

Happy Valentine's Day! We celebrated Valentine's Day today and encorporated Conversation Hearts to our math lesson! We wrote notes to loved ones and exchanged Valentine's! Check out our locker decorations that we made using our iPads!

Enjoy your spring break with your children! Classes will resume on Tuesday, February 19th.

Next Week:

Tuesday: Music

Wednesday: Food & Fitness

Happy Birthday Will!!

Thursday: Library

Special Snack: Shannon

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

Thursday, February 14, 2013

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