What's Happening in 2A?: Dancing Fever

Friday, October 21, 2011

Dancing Fever

We have been working soooo hard to earn tickets in 2A!! In August and September students were earning blue tickets. All the second graders had to work as a team to earn our reward: a reward recess and dance. We were having a friendly competition in the school and 2nd grade came in 3rd!!! During that time we earned 1, 800 tickets. That's amazing!!!!!! A lot of kids danced the whole time and I must say we have some excellent dancers in 2A :) Way to bust a move 2nd graders!

Now, students have to work individually for golden tickets. I don't give these out quite as often and I give them out for students making excellent Cadet Pride choices. Each Friday the PBIS team will collect the tickets and draw one winner from the class. This week Ashley was the winner...congrats!! I have an extra incentive just for our classroom as well. Each week I count up the tickets and the top 3 ticket earners are getting a reward from me as well.

I hope 2A students continue to make good Cadet Pride choices!

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Comprehension Skills and Strategies

Distinguish Fact and Opinion: Your child learned that facts are statements that can be proved. Opinions are what someone believes. The words I believe, I think, and in my view are clues that someone is expressing an opinion. Most students are able to state a fact; however, opinions are more challenging. Please practice this at home.

Sequence Events: Sequence is the order in which event take place. Clue words such as first, next, then, and last help readers know when events occur. When your child is summarizing have them sequence the events using the clue words.

Make Inferences: This is a strategy that readers use to understand what they are reading. When making an inference, readers need to fill in information that the author did not include. Readers must combine what they know with details from the text.
Pictures and words (text clues) + background knowledge (what we know) = an inference

Summarize: A summary is a paragraph or a statement in your own words that gives the most important ideas from the text that was read. Step 1: find the main ideas from the selection. Step 2: shorten and combine those ideas.

Categorize and Classify: We can categorize and classify objects, evens, ideas, and characters by how they are alike and how they fit into groups. When students are reading they can find types of things that are similar and group them into the same category.

Monitor Comprehension: Students must ALWAYS monitor their comprehension while they are reading. If they don't understand what was read they need to reread it. When readers are confused they can use "fix-up" strategies. Here is a list of those strategies:
*reread more slowly
*look up words
*read on
*use picture clues
*summarize
*ask for help