3B Blog News from Mrs. Kerian: respect

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Sunday, September 13, 2009

3B's Respect and Responsibility I Chart

I forgot to put this in last week as I mentioned I would. Here is the "I Chart" that we came up with as a class as far as our expectations for our behavior and responsibilities. Hopefully you can see it. Sorry I forgot to post it earlier last week.

Monday, September 7, 2009

Progress in All Areas! Fantastic Friday!

I am writing this post on Monday, Labor Day, but it is a reflection of last week. (Just pretend I am writing it last Friday.) After our morning meeting today, we had a discussion on respect and responsibility. The students and I created an "I Chart" if what a respectful classroom looks like. Students did a wonderful job coming up with phrases to finish the statement "I show I am respectful/responsibility by. . ". They also thought about what the teacher does to show respect. I will take a picture of our chart to include in my next post. Everyone signed it in agreement that that is what our classroom will look like. (A teacher can never "assume" students know what to do all the time and review is constantly needed.) We hung it in the classroom so that we can always be reminded about our "job" as student and teacher. Great visual to have! On a different note, I was so excited with the progress the students made in our Read to Self and Read to Someone stamina!!! They increased their Read to Self stamina to 23 MINUTES!!!! Incredible!!!! They also increased their Read to Someone to 13 MINUTES! The students were so excited when I told them how long they made it! Way to go! In the afternoon we started some math stations in which students work in small groups applying math skills we learned in the previous lessons (telling time, measuring, calculator use, reviewing addition and subtraction). The students were sad when it was time to stop and have recess. . .some wanted to stay in from recess! Wow! It was too nice to stay in. During science, the hunt was on looking for living organisms outside by the butterfly garden. The sun was shining so it was wonderful to be outside. But no matter how much we rushed, we couldn't get our Friday podcast done. . .so stay tuned for it next week. The students love to do podcast!!!!

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Punctuation and Full Moon?

The students did a wonderful job with "Read the Punctuation" this morning! It's great to listen to them read with attention to expression based on punctuation marks. I took pictures and will post them some time soon. Tomorrow we are podcasting the book Yo! Yes?, which we will apply reading the punctuation. Listen to it by going to my web page sometime after school on Friday (tomorrow). Hopefully you can tell what punctuation marks are at the end of each phrase/word by the way we read it.

I hope you are enjoying our daily blog. Students enjoy contributing to the daily blog either alone with our 8th grade typer, Ashley Haw, or as a large group. (Thanks to Ashley) We look if we have new comments or followers every day so I encourage everyone to become a follower-parents, grandparents, etc. I know some people are having difficulty getting the "follow" to work so I will be sending home a sheet that explains how to become a follower. Look for this next Tuesday.

Well. . . I think the students are in a good routine and feeling comfortable after 2 1/2 weeks of school . but today was a little rough when it came to respecting one another and listening. Yes, a day of setback is expected, as the students really have established a great morning routine so once and a while a setback may occur. For the first time, we didn't make our stamina in Read to Self. We fell a little short; yet we increased our "Read to Someone" stamina so that is a give and take. I am very pleased with our progress over the last week so keep it up 3B! Mornings are pleasant and wonderful as we work through literacy. Love it! I am surprised at the shift in behavior of some students, not all, when the afternoon approaches. Maybe when the students go out for noon recess they forget how to treat each other and listen??? Doubt it. If you get the feeling we had a difficult afternoon, you are correct. From 12:30-2:00 appears to be the challenging time of the day for 3B students. What to do? What to do? Well, we had a big class discussion at the end of the day today. Tomorrow we are going to do a few mini lessons on respect and what is a "student's job" in 3B. We will try various other "strategies" also, but I did want to bring it up for discussion. If you are reading this blog, as parents of 3B students, have a discussion with them how they feel the day went this afternoon. It's important to get their opinion of how they feel the afternoon went and the problems that occurred. Again, I stress, it was not all students. This is also common after a few weeks of school when comfort is established. So. . .we move on and focus on what we could do better and ARE doing better. Maybe there was something in the water because all teachers commented that students had a rough afternoon today? Full moon coming, that's for sure!
Have a great 3 day weekend and thanks for sharing your 3rd grader with me.

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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.

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