Mrs. Rausch's Class

Friday, May 24, 2013

What an adventure!

The last few weeks of school have been very busy and very eventful! We have been loving our ABC Countdown until the end of the year!! Thanks to Wyatt and Shannon's families for donating items to our classroom to help out with this adventure!!

In Literacy we have continued asking questions such as "What is responsibility?" and "What does it mean to be fair?". Students have begun an exciting time of asking questions and then looking for answers. Some of our questions are: Why do camels spit? Why do people have fingernails? Why does a rhino have a horn? Next week we will investigate answers to these questions!

We took our last math assessment this week! We will continue to work with money and practice buying items from the classroom "store." We will work with fractions and graphing next week!

Rolling Things has introduced us to the interesting concept of weight, speed, shape, etc. and how it impacts the crash of a car!! We have continued to investigate these concepts with our ramps!

Let's Look at our Last 2 Weeks:

Monday: NO SCHOOL

Tuesday: Music

* Celebrate Kaiya's Birthday *

* Bring back Reading Folders and earn a prize! *

Wednesday: Field Trip to LaCrosse

* Wear Cadet Blue Colors! *

Depart 8:45 -- Return 3:00

Thursday: Fitness Center Fun Day

* Wear Team Colors *

Friday: P.E.

* Ty's Birthday Celebration *

* Wear Red, White, Blue * USA *

Monday: ART

* Grill Out -- Thanks PBIS *

* Xtra Recess -- Thanks Mrs. McCabe *

Tuesday: MUSIC

* Walk to East Park *

Wednesday: Last Day of 1ST Grade!

* 3 Hour Early Out *

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, May 24, 2013

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