In Reading Workshop we have started working on more comprehension strategies - retelling and comparing/contrasting! We are going to read several different variations of the story The Gingerbread Man. We read the original to get familiar with the storyline. We then read 2 different versions so far - The Gingerbread Baby and The Gingerbread Man Loose In The School. Each day we talked about the elements of a good retelling: characters, setting, beginning, middle and end of the story and we need to include details. The kids first orally retold the stories to partners and then we worked on writing down or drawing our retellings. We are first doing this as a whole class so they can learn the expectations of a retelling. We then compared and contrasted these two versions as a class. Above is the result of our conversation!
We started discovering about Reindeer together this week by first visiting Wonderopolis.com to learn if reindeer live outside of the North Pole (http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/do-reindeer-live-outside-the-north-pole/). We discussed the meaning of the words frigid and tundra. We then started using the PebbleGo.com resource to read about the body and habitat of the reindeer, which are also called caribou. We are learning how to take notes while researching to keep track of our information.
We also started learning about fact families in math. Students were asked to work in groups to discover ways they could fill a toy box with dolls and trucks to come up with combinations of a total number of toys given to them. We then built models of this to create addition sentences based on those combinations. Then we talked about what would happen if they took the dolls or trucks out of the toy box and what subtraction sentences would be represented by that. There is a video of our conversation on our website (
http://www.dublinschools.net/MaryBrothers.aspx).
We started discovering about Reindeer together this week by first visiting Wonderopolis.com to learn if reindeer live outside of the North Pole (http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/do-reindeer-live-outside-the-north-pole/). We discussed the meaning of the words frigid and tundra. We then started using the PebbleGo.com resource to read about the body and habitat of the reindeer, which are also called caribou. We are learning how to take notes while researching to keep track of our information.
We also started learning about fact families in math. Students were asked to work in groups to discover ways they could fill a toy box with dolls and trucks to come up with combinations of a total number of toys given to them. We then built models of this to create addition sentences based on those combinations. Then we talked about what would happen if they took the dolls or trucks out of the toy box and what subtraction sentences would be represented by that. There is a video of our conversation on our website (
http://www.dublinschools.net/MaryBrothers.aspx).