Mrs. Rausch's Class

Thursday, March 28, 2013

What makes a perfect place to live?

In Lead 21, we have learned that plants and animals have basic needs in order for them to survive in their habitat! Below are our first grade students demonstrating what they have learned this week!

Forest Habitat!

Grassland Habitat

Desert Habitat

Water Habitat Ocean Habitat

By Will

In math, we finished Unit 6. The next unit will be learning more about shapes! To culminate our unit, and to celebrate Easter, we did Munchie Math all week!!

Thank you to Wyatt and Shannon's family for donating snack to make this possible!

Monday we used pretzel rods as arms on a clock! We told time to the hour, half hour, and quarter hour! Of course we then ate our clock hands :)

Tuesday we categorized & classified white popcorn, cheese popcorn, pretzels, goldfish, and cheerios. We then graphed how many of each food item we had!

Thursday we used Jelly Beans to measure various things around our classroom!!

Happy Birthday to our classmates Preston and Kylee! Both students turned 7 years old today!!

Enjoy your 4 day Easter Weekend!!

We will see you again on Tuesday!

Tuesday: Music

Thursday: Library

* Special Snack: Will *

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

Thursday, March 28, 2013

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