Inferrencing

Inferrencing is a reading comprehension strategy that helps the students to understand the story better. When a student uses their schema, which is their mental file, along with clues from the text, they are inferring. This past week, my students have been using inferrencing to find the meaning of unknown words. Here are some activities that will help you and your students become masters at this skill.

READING: KWL

The Mixed Up Chameleon: fun practice

D = DIRECT

• direct and activate students' thinking to prior readings; scanning the title, chapter headings, illustrations, and other materials. (e.g."Given this title, what do you think the passage will be about?").
  R = READING.
• Students read up to the first pre-selected stopping point, then prompt the students with questions about specific information and asks them to rethink their predictions and change them if necessary. continue.

T = THINKING.

• At the end of each section, students go back through the text and think about their predictions. Students should verify or modify their predictions by finding supporting statements in the text. The teacher asks questions such as:
  What do you think about your predictions now?
  What did you find in the text to prove your predictions?
  What did you we read in the text that made you change your predictions?

WRITING: BIOGRAPHIES

M A T H :TOOL CHEST

ADDING

3 NUMBER STORY COMPARISONS

ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION NUMBER STORIES

MULTIPLES OF EQUAL GROUPS :INTERACTIVE CREATION

Dance Mat Typing- 15 Minutes of Typing

Time to learn the typing basics. You are going to begin with level one typing. Click on the picture to the left. Listen carefully to the directions. Complete home row, e-i, and r-u. Type on!

What's Happening Captain

We've been in school for almost two months and so much has been going on. Our children have learned what the expectation of the classroom is and how they are expected to behave. We are now becoming a family that works together and can count on each other.
During reader's workshop, we have learned many strategies that will help us to become better readers and understand text better. For example, making connections and creating mental images. In writer's workshop, we are working on creating personal narratives, stories about us. We've learned that stories have to have a sequence and flow. Our focus this month is building setting in our stories using our 5 senses. The children are doing a great job visualizing what is around them at the point of time where their stories are taking place. In Math, we are building on our number sense from addition and subtraction up to sums of 20 to creating number stories and following patterns. During Science, we are working on our module of The Life Cycle of the Butterfly. Our children watch them go through all the stages of their lives and enjoyed taking care of them. Make sure you ask them to tell you what they know about caterpillars and butterflies. Be on the look out for future blogs.