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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Tuesday Tales!

Another busy day! We worked on reading stamina today. We learned that we read a book 3 ways: read the pictures and think about the story; read the words and think about the story; and retell the story using our own words, so we have to think about the story. Notice the pattern: think about the story! Reading is about thinking. If you don't understand what you are reading, you aren't reading!

We also learned a strategy to help us with accuracy: crosschecking. The words and the pictures have to match.

In writing we learned what authors do and wrote our 1st piece. I'm looking forward to reading those tonight.

We finished up the afternoon with problem solving, then worked on an activity for our monthly calendar. I then read the book, Quick as a Cricket, where we added up the animals in the book and then tomorrow we will finish up by sorting the animals.

And...we did 3 more ME boxes!

I now have all the photo permission slips, so I will be posting pictures soon.

Tomorrow is open house. If you came in August, you do not have to come unless you want to meet the PTO. If you were unable to come in August, I look forward to meeting you tomorrow night. Information went home today about the open house.

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