Mrs. Rausch's Class

Friday, March 15, 2013

Inquiry Projects!! We had SO much fun working with Mrs. Butler's 6th grade class! They helped us research our given fable, famous American, or family history! This project culminated our studies of "Stories of Our Past." On Monday & Tuesday of next week we will wrap up this Lead 21 theme. Wednesday we will begin the theme "A Perfect Place to Live."

Check out some of our Videolicious videos:

Harriet Tubman

By: Landen

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

By: Kylee

My Family History

By: Will

Please stop by our student lockers to check out more projects!!

Hooray for Payton and Cloey! Both girls decided to write stories during Work on Writing. They spent 2 weeks working on their stories and this week they finally were able to present their stories using Animoto and Videolicious. Check out two of them:

The Baby

Written by Cloey

The Baby Elephant

Written by Payton

Thank you to all parents who were able to attend last night's Literacy & Technology Open House! Our class had 10/16 students attend! Kaitlin S., a 2nd grade student in Mrs. Ihde's class was drawn to win the iPad Mini!!

We hope you learned a lot about some of the activities we do each day in class 1B! If you were unable to attend, please stop by our lockers to check out our Inquiry Projects!

In Math... Weather delays and cancellations have really slowed down our math curriculum! However; this week we were able to "explore" some of our recent learnings! We played games using our fact power triangles, geoboards, pattern blocks, etc. Today we will continue working on math facts. Monday we will begin learning and using the QUARTER!

Let's Look at Next Week:

Monday: Art

Tuesday: Music

Thursday: Library

* Special Snack: Landen *

Friday: P.E.

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, March 15, 2013

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