Chess Club
Chess Club is going very well. The students seem to be enjoying the game and I can see growth in their thinking. For the next two weeks I will be taking a class after school. This means that I need to leave right after you pick up your students at 3:25. Please try to be in the Prairieview parking lot right at 3:25 so that I may leave promptly. Thank you so much!
3rd Grade Skills Reading Group with Mrs. Csorba
We will be focusing on the following skills and strategies as we read The Chalk Box Kid this week: identifying character traits, setting, and problem/solution, summarizing, predicting, and making inferences.
4th Grade Skills Reading Group with Mrs. Beseth
Mysteries will be the focus in reading for all fourth grade students next week. We will begin by learning vocabulary words that are typically associated with mysteries, such as “suspect”, “evidence” and “suspense”. Students may practice the definitions of the vocabulary words by completing a crossword puzzle at the following website: http://www.eduplace. com/kids/hmr06/gr4/activities/pdf/gr4_th1_xword.pdf. All students will read & study “The Case of the Purloined Pachyderm”. While reading this mystery and other mystery stories, students will be studying the format of a mystery and using the reading strategies of monitoring and clarifying.
5th Grade Skills Reading Group with Mrs. Bucklin
This week, we will review all the skills we have studied so far this school year, specifically, summarizing, drawing conclusions, inferencing, identifying author generalizations, and visualizing while reading The Kid in the Red Jacket, a realistic fiction novel.
