Comprehension Strategies

 This week we began an in-depth look into reading comprehension strategies.

Here is our reading salad which shows us that there is more thinking involved in 'real' reading than there is text.  We also talked about 'fake' reading.

  Yes - we learned the word Metacognition.  Here's a picture of the same concept, more for the visual learners.

To show our thinking while reading the text we take turns using the thought bubble.

SCIENCE - exploration with magnets

MATH - Both grades are wrapping up the Data Analysis units.  Grade 3s will now begin multiplication and division.  Grade 2s will do review, focused on numbers to 100, specifically addition and subtraction with carrying and borrowing.