What We Know About Reading

Today students blogged about what they know about reading.

Check out how much we know: http://kidblog.org/mssimonsensclass32/

Sorting Polygons

Students used polygons with 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8 sides to create sorting rules. Each student was asked to create two groups with their shapes and state the sorting rule.

Can you guess the sorting rule for this student's work?

Questioning

Students are currently practising the reading strategy questioning in ELA. We have read and re-read Eve Bunting's "The Wednesday Surprise" (a terrific book). As a class we made questions during our first time reading and now we are coding our questions in 2 ways:

1) Do our questions help us to better understand the characters/story (U) or not (N), and

2) Were our questions answered in the text (A), do we have to infer (I) or find answers from an outside source (OS) (Codes from Debbie Miller's "Reading with Meaning").

We have quite the class of questioning readers!! Students have discussed how questioning helps us better understand the story, makes us want to read on and allows us to share with peers.

Next, students will apply what they know about questioning to Pauline Cartwright's "A Special Occasion."

Science Jeopardy

Students have been studying forces, magnetism and static electricity in our current science unit. Today we had some fun reviewing information we learned by playing Jeopardy. It was a great way to review the unit and so much fun!! I was very impressed by the knowledge my students showed during the game. Great work 3.2!!

Welcome Back!!

Welcome back Class 3.2!!

I hope everyone had a great February break, read a good book or two, got rested up and are ready for the next few busy weeks of school. I look forward to seeing all of you again and hearing how you spent your few days off from school.

Picture It!

Our international project we're currently involved in, "Picture It!", is really starting to come together. We have received 3 more pieces for our art work this week. It's fun to see how our collaborative project is evolving.