Pay It Forward!

We had two more authors this week publish their books by reading them to the class!

We have been working on mastering the reading strategy of "SUMMARIZING".  Summarizing can be very difficult for adults, so breaking it down for students to understand can be a complex concept.  Many times, students want to tell you every last detail they remember.  It is great when they can recall information, however, we have been working hard at recognizing the difference between supporting details of the text and   summarizing the text.  We try to focus on what the text was MOSTLY ABOUT!  Not just a detail.  We need to see the forest and not just one tree.  

 Students are holding links in the chain that describe how they helped to "pay it forward" last week. 

Look how many good deeds we accomplished as a class in just one week!!

Student working on meeting common core standard K.OA.4. "Finds the number that makes ten when added to a given number and records the answer.."

Since it was too cold to go outside for our FUN FRIDAY ACTIVITY, I taught the student's.....wait for it....the MACARENA!!  They thought it was hilarious!! :)