So, Mrs. Hider and I assessed students on their reading today and 99% of the kiddos we read with today (we read with 25 students), moved up at least one reading level-this means that they are making good progress! One trend we found was that students are not monitoring their reading. If they read something and it doesn't make sense, they should stop and figure it out before moving on. Have your kiddo read out loud to you periodically-maybe once a week and ask them questions about what they are reading. This might help them to gain better fluency. They are also proving that they are way smarter and better readers than they show in class and in writing. We are more than 100 days in to the year so we are going to be getting more challenging... you may see a bit more specific homework/practice until they can show what they know. It's about time for me to start inputting grades and right now, there'll still be a lot of 2's when I know most of them are capable of 3's...
In class, students worked on understanding the meaning of our words this week and read the book, The Water Princess, which is one of the books on the March Book Madness picture book bracket. In Reader's Workshop, they read another informational text about the great Halifax explosion and today was the last day to gather research for their topics. Math was spent either testing, practicing for the test, problem-solving or extending our thinking. Our day concluded with learning some pretty interesting facts about presidents and doing some fun activities too. Hopefully, this helps them to understand why we will not be in school on Monday!
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