Friday, November 19, 2010

November Highlights!

Here are some of the things we've been working on this past month:
-Making Connections when we read. The students are practicing making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections during reading. We are sharing a book called, It's Heaven to be Seven to introduce this skill
-Completing our Autobiographies on a Box and writing our autobiographies to go with them
-Identifying story problem types and figuring out where the missing number is. We've been solving many story problems and writing our own. So far we've worked on Part-Part-Total problems and Join problems. We've also been discussing different strategies that can be used to solve problems and how to show strategies on paper.