January 28th, 2022

 Hello everyone, 

This week in literacy we worked confirming or adjusting our predictions of a story. We looked at books as a class and made predictions before reading based on the evidence of the title and any cover art. Then at the midway point of our story we stopped to see if our predictions were accurate or if we needed to adjust them based on new evidence we found while reading. 

I can confirm the meaning of texts by applying a variety of comprehension strategies.

With Ms. Yasin this week in math, students reviewed and solidified addition strategies using mental math. Students reviewed number pairs to 10, doubles, near doubles and making friendly numbers. Then students began practicing place value addition, which requires numbers to be split up into their tens and ones parts. Then the tens are added together, and the ones are added together. Students can use this mental math strategy to quickly add larger numbers together! 

Ms. Yasin’s literacy groups continued clarifying their comprehension of their novels by working through tricky words. Students practiced using context clues and previous knowledge to make an educated guess on what a word meant. Then students confirmed their thoughts using a dictionary.