3B Blog News from Mrs. Kerian: The Hour of Code! We Love Coding!

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

The Hour of Code! We Love Coding!

Last week 3B students participated in "The Hour of Code". Information about the Hour of Code can be found at https://hourofcode.com/us. This was a movement set up to get all students across the world to participate in at least one hour of coding. 3B was part of this great activity and we loved it!

It is believed that all students will have to have some understanding of coding to be an effective working member of society in the future. Learning to code at our level involved some great apps and online sites. Many great coding activities are also found on the "Hour of Code" website at https://code.org/learn. Students did not want to stop once they figured out how to code. It was really a great week-long activity that we will continue throughout the year.

Along with this, students also did some coding in TECH class. They loved coding the cars and bugs to move and drive!

I am excited to say students in 3B can code! Can you?

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Reading Comprehension Strategies

Inferencing: Experienced readers make inferences as they read. Readers use what they already know and think about what they have read to construct meaning. The reader should ask themselves, "What I already know in my brain" and "What did I just read or see?" to make an inferences that is not stated by the author of person.

Determining Important Information: Determining important information is a strategy that helps us pick out the most important ideas we read. The first line of a paragraph may say the main idea of the page, but a reader should read through the details to decide what is the important information. The reader should ask themselves, "What is the author trying to teach me?"

Summarize: A summary is a paragraph or a statement in your own words that gives the most important ideas from what you have read. Readers determine important information, make inferences, and visualize when summarizing. We use the graphic organizer of "Somebody....Wanted....But....So.....Then....". "Somebody" is the character. "Wanted" would be the what the character wanted. "But" would be the problem. "So" would be how the problem was solved, and "Then" would be the resolution or end.

Predicting:When a reader predicts, they use information from the text along with their own knowledge and experiences to make thoughtful or informed guesses about what will happen in the text. When your child is reading at home, encourage them to stop and share predictions he/she may have as they are reading.

Identifying Text Structure: Recognizing how a piece of writing is organized can help readers understand what is happening. There can be different ways a text is structured.

* Sequential - in order

* Cause and Effect

* Question / Answer

* Steps in a Process

When reading at home, discuss how the text is organized and structure.

Ask and Answer Questions: Experienced readers ask questions about the text in order to understand what they are reading. Asking questions helps readers visualize, monitor comprehension and determine important information. Answers to these questions may be found in the text, or put together from the reader's own experience. At home, parents can encourage students to stop and ask questions while they read and recognize when answers are within the text or needed to be answered by own experience.

Paraphrasing: When readers paraphrase, they tell main ideas using their own words. This helps them check their understanding of what they have read. At home, parents can encourage their student to read a selection, flip the book over, and tell them main ideas from their reading in their own words. Flip the book back over and read another section or page before flipping it over again and paraphrasing his/her reading.

3B Blog News from Mrs. Kerian

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

The Hour of Code! We Love Coding!

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