Chess Club
Chess Club will meet as usual this week.
A Great Gift Idea
I was reading the Ask Amy column in the Chicago Tribune last night and I thought she had a wonderful idea. She suggested that children wake up on a special holiday to a wrapped book at the foot of their beds. What better way to encourage reading than to make a book the special gift a child receives first thing in the morning. It might even give you a few more minutes of sleep if your child begins reading the book before they rousing the rest of the family.
3rd Grade Reading with Mrs. Csorba
We will continue to learn about evaluating text and visualizing as we read. We will continue to use the story Dogzilla as well as other novels and text as we apply these skills. We will also work on strategies from previous weeks.
4th Grade Reading with Mrs. Beseth
The first strategy that we focus on this week in reading is making inferences. A writer doesn't always explain every fact or detail about when writing a story. The writer expects that readers will fill in missing information from their own experience. Good readers do this by putting together what they already know and what they have read to make the best guess they can. When readers add information from their own experience to what is stated in a text, they are making an inference. We will also study the reading skill of comparing and contrasting. Students will practice comparing pieces of literature that are similar and different.
5th Grade Reading with Mrs. Bucklin
This week we will continue to practice summarizing and predicting with skill pages and fiction reading material. The students will also complete an extended response question from the story A Boy Called Slow. The students will need to use the IEIEIE format in answering the question.
