Annotating

We continued working on asking deep thinking questions today surrounding the story If...
Ask your child what sentence stem they are working with and how their questions are coming along.

We have been trying our hand at annotating while we are reading.  Think of it as reading with a pencil.  We started by highlighting facts in a newspaper article about swimming to school in India.  Today we made the infinity symbol on the article, 'Boat Ride to a Better Life' when we had a connection and a ? mark when we didn't understand a word or had a question.  Your student is working on making their thinking visible and interacting with the text.  This works with pictures and text.

We have begun solving story problems using multiplication.  Some of us are creating chocolate boxes for packing while others will begin tomorrow.  This gives students experience connecting real world situations to multiplication.

Pillars of Care assembly Friday March 16 8:15 am all welcome