We are working on several different strategies to help our reading. Today we put them together as we looked a book that gets us in the mood for Valentines Day.
In this story we had to use our “infer” strategy to figure out what some of the words meant. In class we define infer as using clues from the book, what we already know in our brains and making a good guess. We decided to take this a bit further with another strategy we are using in class, “Expanding Vocabulary”. We used “google” to look up what some of the words meant and learned that this is what lots of good learners do when they don’t know a word. That caused us to get very interested in all the new vocabulary we learned from this book. I have challenged the kids to do some internet research on these words and type up what they learn in the comments. Any other readers, feel free to comment and help our learning!! Since this is a web based project I would ask that you work with your child so that you can monitor any sites that they hit to make sure it is appropriate.
Hi Pack! Hope you are getting lots of exercise out sledding in the snow. My kids have been having a good time in it and neither got hurt. Do you remember that Ryan got his face torn up last time from a sledding accident? I must confess that I have not gone out much. I have enjoyed being trapped inside and I read a whole book yesterday. That’s my kind of snow day. What have you been doing?
Here is a video by the same guy that did the elephant song that we love so much. Don’t be like Fred! Be careful!
Tell me what you are doing in the comments. How do you like to spend your snowy day?
We are collecting money to help the kids in Haiti. One of our teachers has a son in law who is there now helping with an orphanage. We hope some of our money will go to help these kids. Please send any spare change to help us help others. McHarg is such a giving school. We are proud to call it ours. Currently we have about $600.00.
We have begun a chapter on skip counting. We are learning to count by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s. Use this web site to help practice. Then type the numbers in the comment section by 2’s(to 20), 5’s and 10’s(to 100). How are you doing with it?
So sorry that we don’t get to be together today for Polar Express Fun Friday. Share your art and singing with your family and we will pretend we are together. Have a very Merry Christmas! Let me know what you are doing in the comments.
We are involved with another on line Projects by Jen. Remember the O.R.E.O. project? This time we signed up and Jen organized all the classrooms that signed up to groups. We are in group 14. We made and sent holiday cards to everyone in our group. Now we have been enjoying reading all the cards that are coming to us from all over the United States and even from Canada. Here is our Certificate of Participation.
Here is a picture of our Smart Board map that shows where all our cards came from.
You can see all the different places that participated by clicking here.
There were 787 classrooms from 46 US States,
7 Canadian Provinces, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Philippines, Scotland, Russia, & theUnited Kingdom
