Monday, August 29, 2011
What fun!
We have been so busy today! This was the first day that we really started getting into the nitty gritty of first grade. We spent some time today talking about what readers do when they are thinking about their reading. We talked about how readers get their minds ready by looking at the cover of a book and how taking a book walk helps us predict what might happen in the story. Using our schema really helps us with our understanding of the text when we read.
Today we also started our math journals. After we played Collect 20 with a partner, the class received their math journals and were given tubs of pattern blocks. I asked them to explore the blocks and write about their noticings in their journals. Oh my gracious! What a wonderfully articulate bunch of mathematicians I have on my hands! I'm looking forward to tomorrow!
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Daira took me on a book walk the other day and made me talk about what I thought was going to happen next by looking at the pictures!
ReplyDeleteSo glad you told us last night that they will not be getting much math homework...I had told Daira it would be coming and she insisted that it would not...SHE was right yet again!