Reading, Math and Dancing Elves!

As a reading focus for the past few months, your child has be working on “visualization”.  This is an excellent strategy for readers to use when recalling details in a text.  Making a picture or mental image assists readers in understanding what they read by creating images in their mind, based on the details in the text and their own schema (prior knowledge). We also have been making connections to what we are reading.  When reading, a student might think to themselves how a story reminds them of a time something similar happened in their own life.  The text might remind them of another story they read.  A book may also remind them of something that happened in the world (text to world connections).  These connections help readers to understand parts of the story, how a character feels or make them think about how they would respond if they were in the text.  Reading really is THINKING!
On Fridays, we have math stations before heading off to gym.  We are becoming very good at choosing activities that interest us and staying on task for longer periods of time.  

Prodigy is a favourite!

Using the smartboard

More Prodigy math fun!

We had more elves dancing at Holy Redeemer on Friday.  They have some smooth moves!