November Happenings

Bar Modeling

2nd and 3rd graders are working on bar modeling in math. We found a great website to  help students  solve story problems step by step with bar modeling .Bar Modeling on Math Playground/ Thinking Blocks

Third graders practice bar modeling on the Smart Board at Math Playground thinking blocks.

The Water Cycle

Do you think all that water stays in the ocean? Where do you think rain comes from? After students' shared their ideas, they drew illustrations to show how Earth’s water moves from place to place in different forms in what we call the water cycle.

Water Conservation

Although over 70% of Earth's surface is covered with water, less than 1% of this water is available for human consumption. We played a board game to help the  children discuss methods that can be used to purify and conserve this critical resource.

Reader's Theatre

Research shows that “Repeated Oral Reading" improves reading fluency and comprehension, especially when it includes reading role models.Reader’s theater truly engages students and is the most popular form of “repeated guided oral reading.” Reader’s theater provides a dramatic text that does not require memorization, props or a stage.The acting out of story dialogue compels readers to work more closely with the text to interpret and project meaning into the experience. As a result, students show improvement in vocabulary, comprehension and retention. This literacy group has been working on improving reading rate, expression and fluency and shared their reading piece with their classmates today.