This week, we will shift gears into a new comprehension strategy. Our focus strategy will be inferring. Inferring is when reader's draw conclusions from text. Readers take the information from the text and merge it with their schema, or prior knowledge, to draw a conclusion. This week our text connection is the story What Mary Jo Shared. Students will be discussing inferences as well as listening to "think alouds" in order to understand the metacognitive process that occurs when readers make inferences. Students will also begin to identify text evidence to support their inferences. Guided reading groups will be finishing up their non-fiction material this week before moving on to new fiction stories next week.
In writing, we are wrapping up the publishing process for our Trimester Two stories. The publishing process has been very helpful as students have learned more about revising, editing and conferring. They have learned how to accept feedback, offer feedback to others, identify areas for improvement and set a plan on how to improve their work. We continue to work on opinion writing in our reading response journals as we write about texts and focus on finding text evidence to support the main opinion in these pieces.
In math, we will conclude Unit 9 this week and have our assessment on Tuesday. The rest of the week will be spent reviewing secure second grade skills in small groups for both review and enrichment opportunities. These secure skills include subtraction with regrouping, word problems, as well as telling time and elapsed time.
We will be discussing timelines in social studies this week. We will begin by defining timelines and creating timelines of important personal events. We will then take a look at timelines that show information from important dates in history.
Just a reminder, Mrs. Stech, our student teacher, will be taking over the class starting on Monday. She will be in charge of planning and delivering instruction for all academic areas and will be running the classroom all week long. I will be in the building all day as well and will be available if needed. As always, I am available on email throughout the day for questions, concerns and any dismissal/attendance notifications!
Upcoming Dates:
Tuesday April 9: Early Dismissal for Students
Friday April 12: Field Trip to Mechanics Hall 12:30 showing of Charlotte's Web
Friday April 12: Spring Vacation Begins
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