Camping Day and more

Once we got past rocking our mid-year math benchmark, we dug into making inferences, or drawing conclusions, in nonfiction texts.  This skill mainly comes from previewing the headers and, using our background knowledge, trying to infer what we think the section will be about before reading.  Then we read the section and think back about the header.  Could we think of another header that would be just as good?  Check out what we mean in the picture of Marcelo and Ana’s work below.

We also learned how to really “dig into” pictures when making inferences in nonfiction. We practiced looking at primary documents first and tried to figure out what was going on in the document or photograph without any context first.  We dug into our brains and thought about all the things we knew about what we were seeing, while covering up the captions.  Once we had exhausted ourselves that way, we uncovered the captions and used the information the author gave us to deepen our understanding of the photographs.  We also shared out our initial inferences and then our deeper knowledge!

Here are just some bonus pictures of us working hard during reading rotations throughout the week.

The best part of this week had to be Friday, where when we used our class earnings to buy Camping Day! While the original plan was just going to be to “camp” for the first hour, spending time listening to cricket and campfire sounds while working under “tents” was so enjoyable that we made the decision to camp all day!  Check out some pictures and a video of what might end up being our favorite day of the year so far!

 
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Can you believe we’re almost to March? Have a great warm weekend, everyone!