As you can see, the students have grown tremendously since day one of school! They've grown taller, lost teeth, AND gained "super powers" to help them tackle books! The students learned that as they are getting bigger as people they are getting bigger as readers, tackling more challenging books! With bigger books come new challenges and the students have been learning strategies to help them make sense of the increasingly complex patterns in their books! This week the students have been determining patterns within text and using those patterns to help them read. To support the students with "pattern power" they played the game Guess What's Next with each other! You can ask them how to play and play with them at home when reading together! As a quick summary, how you play is one partner is the reader the other is the guesser. The reader reads just one page and the guesser tries to guess what the next page might say without reading it. The game is fun AND it supports students recognize patterns and predict what comes next. Readers can think, "What will be the same?" and "What will change?" The class recognized that sometimes the pattern of a book changes and books become more challenging because the author tricks you and sometime the pattern breaks (and it usually happens on the last page!) This week we even made our very own pattern book where the children were the stars! We also continued our 3rd IB unit. Transdisciplinary theme: Where we are in place and time Central Idea: Discoveries are made through exploration. Lines of Inquiry: * Patterns around the world (day/night chronological vocabulary ) (change) *Explorations of journeys and personal history. (perspective) * Tools we use to determine location and understanding our relation to it. (connection) * Traditions and holidays around the world (connection, perspective) Key Concepts: Perspective, Change, Connection Related Concepts: Cycles, Subjective, Relationships, Systems Transdisciplinary skills: * Thinking: analysis, dialectical thought, synthesis * Social: cooperation, adopting a variety of group roles * Communication: all * Self-Management: spatial awareness, organization, time management * Research: formulating questions, planning, recording data, presenting research data Attitudes: curiosity, commitment Learner Profile: Communicator, Open-minded, Inquirer What you can do at home: Have students practice saying the central idea, discuss the learner profiles and the attitudes of and how students can display these throughout the day. January Cookies for Character- I will be looking for students who demonstrate the learner profile of principled. The Learner Profile is: principled The Attitudes are: commitment and integrity We used maps to determine location and understanding our relation to it. We also learned about cardinal direction! Ask you child to tell you the cardinal directions listed on a maps compass rose!
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