We began our class today with a tower-building competition. After some very creative approaches to tower construction, we had one group DOMINATE the event, with a tower that reached 98 cm. Almost one-metre of tower! Congrats, group!
Ms. Barsky then distributed a handout which details the reading strategies and writing skills we will develop this year. We talked about how there are many different strategies and skills a reader/writer can use when he/she is reading and writing, and we will, by the end of the year, have worked through and practiced all of them.
Today, we focused on the reading strategy of making predictions about what we are about to read. Students were placed in groups and asked to sort some words into categories. Then, they had to come up with a prediction of what the article was likely about. We had many logical predictions!
Finally, we began reading the article "Trick or Treat," using the magnet word strategy to pull out important words and phrases. We will continue with this article next day.
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