After our mystery reader, we learned that all readers make predictions before they read, but they have to "back up" their thinking. They explain why they made the predictions. We also practiced Listening to Reading (our 3rd rotation: Read to Self; Read to a Buddy; and Listen to reading).
In writing we are reviewing the writing process as we begin a unit of study on organization of writing. We learned this week that all writing begins with a great idea. We used our heart maps to select a topic, then we used a storyboard to plan out our story before we actually begin writing. We are all in the pre-writing stage right now.
In the afternoon students went to P.E. and music and then returned to the classroom for math. 1st graders completed a checking progress for unit 3, then played domino top it. 2nd graders learned about estimation. In their Daily Number Review, students have been learning about rounding numbers up or down since the beginning of the year. This made the estimation lesson go very quickly today as they all caught on to the idea. We aren't done, but it sure helped!
We finished the day with Shivam, our child of the day read a story to us. Thanks, Shivam!
Stay warm..have a GREAT weekend..and don't forget to READ...READ....READ!!!
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