Hello everyone,

We have been reading many read alouds in class this past week.  Read alouds allow students to hear the classroom teacher model fluency and expression. It also exposes them to vocabulary that is just beyond their own instructional level.  This is important as students become aware that “Reading is Thinking”.  As a class, we have been looking at making predictions at the beginning of the book, during the story and at the end of the story.  We have also been making different types of connections, such as text to self, text to text, text to world, and text to media.  When reading with your children at home, ask your child to make a connection.  We are continuing with our daily routine of the morning meeting in which students have the opportunity to correct language mistakes in our morning message, graph the temperature and learn place value and money.  In math, we are still working on data management.  The students are practising how to ask good survey questions, tally their results, record the data in their graphs and then create conclusions.