Friday, October 22, 2010

For the Week of October 25th

Chess Club

Be sure to come to chess club this week. I am going to show you a very short chess game and you will get a chance to try it out!

3rd Grade Skills Reading Group with Mrs. Csorba

We will be focusing on predicting, making inferences, and cause and effect as we continue to work with Cliffhanger and other stories. The students will be applying the above comprehension strategies as they read. We will also be writing an extended response to the story Cliffhanger.

4th Grade Skills Reading Group with Mrs. Beseth

This week we will be working on the skills of monitoring and clarifying. We will be learning some vocabulary used in mysteries and will also learn some idioms used in mysteries. We will be reading several mystery stories and seeing if we can monitor and clarify our thinking to come up with the solutions to the mysteries.

5th Grade Skills Reading Group with Mrs. Bucklin

We are working on making generalizations. We will also be working on vocabulary, making analogies. On Friday, we will make generalizations after reading two fun Halloween stories.