During literacy, we are reading novels with our groups and working on literacy jobs which are a high yield strategy called reciprocal teaching. These jobs involve; summarizing, predicting, clarifying, questioning and revups.
Today we began "Number Talks" in our class. This helps the students to build Mental Math and Computation Strategies. Using these strategies, the students break down the equation to problem solve through the process to find the answer. The process is the key part. Here is what it looks like...
The students learned some math hand signals during our Number Talks today.
Important Dates:
- Kenneth D Taylor Movie Night on Friday. Showtime is at 7pm..
- Home Reading - please read daily! Some students are bringing their novel home tonight so that they can catch up.
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Have a great evening!
Mrs. Sayani
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