This week we focused more on using the asking comprehension strategy. Our students know that readers ask questions before, during, and after reading. This helps readers stay engaged in their reading and focus on making meaning. We began exploring the difference between deep and shallow questions. Shallow questions can be answered "right there" in the text. Deeper questions require more of a "think and search" approach and are often more open-ended required higher-level thinking.
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Gingerbread manThis week we read different versions of the famous story "The Gingerbread Man." After reading each of the books we discussed the similarities and differences in each of the stories. We talked about the characters, setting and refrain. The students did an excellent job writing down characteristics of the two main characters: The Gingerbread Man and the Fox. They also retold the story with a partner using props. As we know the story ends with the Gingerbread Man being eaten by the sneaky fox because he wanted to cross the river. What would happen if the Gingerbread Man went into the water? This was the question for our science experiment. Together we went through the 5 scientific steps to conducting an experiment: Question, Hypothesis, Experiment, Results, Conclusion. The students had a lot of fun finding out what happens when you put a gingerbread man in water. The class enjoyed a gingerbread man cookie. Did you like it? CosiCosi came to Huntington to teach the students about their bodies and how to stay healthy. The kids got to move to different hands on stations to learn about health. Snowball fightTo end our Friday afternoon we had another snowball fight. It is so much fun! What a great way to reward the class for their hard work throughout the week. We even got Mr. Boodheshwar ! :) Real Reading SaladThis week in class we learned what it means to do real reading rather than fake reading. Fake reading is reading the words as fast as you can just to see how quickly you can finish the book. Real reading is thinking about the text to make meaning. The class learned the giant word "metacognition" which means thinking about your thinking. They learned that real readers read with expression, make connections, ask questions, make predictions, summarize, clarify and much more. Real readers are always thinking about their reading, not just reading text. In order to put a visual with this lesson we made a real reading salad. I read the story You Can't Move a Hippo orally to the class. Anytime I read text from the book we put a red "Text" paper in the bowl. Anytime I thought about the story we put a green "Thinking" paper in the bowl. The students had great thinking about the story too. We added their thinking to our salad. At the end of the book we looked at our salad. The class could see that most of our real reading salad was made up of thinking. Please encourage your child to think about the books they are reading at home. An HOur of codeThis week at Huntington all of the classes are taking part in one hour of computer coding. This was a challenge for some students, but they loved it! They can do more coding on the website: https://sites.google.com/a/bcsoh.org/hour-of-code-2016/home |
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