Dear Parents, April 2, 2012 We will spend this short week in review of our past theme and spelling words. However, we will continue work on our writer’s workshop on why school is […]
Dear Parents, March 26, 2012 Our reading strategy this week is “predicting/inferring”. The comprehension skill that will help us with inferring is drawing conclusions. Using the text, pictures, and our own prior knowledge will help us draw conclusions when we […]
Dear Parents, March 19, 2012 It is a brand new trimester and it is the last one before summer! Woo-hoo! We are beginning to prepare ourselves for second grade! I am adding a […]
Step 1: Read and Finish a Book! Step 2: Record the title of your book on a separate piece of paper. Step 3: Bring it in the following morning. Step 4: Miss Manning will record your name on a red ticket and send it to the office. Step 5: Your ticket will be added to […]
Dear Parents, March 12, 2012 We had a fantastic turn out at the School Fair! Thank you for supporting this event! The students were thrilled to see our community come together before their very eyes and we hope you enjoyed it just as much! In addition, a big “Thank you!” to the parents who volunteered […]
Dear Parents, March 5, 2012 Our reading strategy this week is “questioning”. Good readers question before they start reading, as well as, during reading. […]
Dear Parents, February 27, 2012 Our reading strategy this week is “monitor and clarify”. Stopping to reread especially if there are words we have difficulty reading and making sure the sentence and the story make sense to us are strategies that good readers use. The comprehension skill that helps us with this strategy is sequencing […]
Dear Parents, February 21, 2012 We are starting theme 7 in language arts – We Can Work It Out! Our reading strategy is summarizing and our comprehension skill that helps us with this is problem solving. In order to summarize a story, it is helpful to recognize the problem and the solution in the story. […]
Dear Parents, February 13, 2012 Valentine’s Day is just around the corner! We will be celebrating Valentine’s Day on Tuesday with a party in the afternoon put on by our room parents! I am looking forward to it almost as much as the students as we will be able to use the mailboxes we made […]
Dear Parents, February 6, 2012 February is here! My, the time is flying by! Our reading strategy this week is questioning. A good reader stops while reading and asks themselves questions about the story. The comprehension skill that helps us in understanding what we read is noting details. Paying close attention to the details given […]