October is my favorite month. The leaves change, the weather gets crisp, school is rolling along, the kids are in the groove of 4th grade and the Book Fair comes to our school!
On Wednesday, my class get to go to the Book Fair and purchase books if they wish. Our PTO is awesome and gives each teacher $50 to spend on books for our classroom--plus they are treating us to lunch on Monday to kick off the book fair!
To go along with our "Making Meaning" Reading curriculum, the district purchased classroom books for all grades, classrooms, and schools. 4th grade recieved over 350 new books for each classroom. WOW! These books are leveled, high interest, all different genres and I cannot wait to let the kids get their hands on them!
We are up to 15 minutes for IDR time. We are kind of at a stand still at 15 minutes--lots of kids have no trouble reading for this amount of time, but others are still antsy--we are still working on building our stamina and being able to sit and read for an extended period of time. It is nice to see so many students check books back out and read the whole book! So many kids start a book then never finish it--just keep on starting them. It is my hope that my students will start and finish most of the books they choose to read--that is what we are working on!
I have brought in pillows, fish pillows, rugs, and a leaf canopy for the kids to use during IDR time--or writing time--they love to use these to get comfy while reading or writing!
For reading homework each night I have asked the kids to read daily. Hopefully they are reading at home for 15-20 minutes everyday! We are working on "Stop and Think" about what you are reading---after a few paragraphs or a few pages or even a chapter, students should stop and think about what the book is about and asking themselves if they understand what they just read. We have also been working on "Re-reading". Re-reading is a strategy good readers use not only to understand what they are reading but to get deeper meaning out of what they are reading and notice things they didn't notice the first time.
Read, read, read!!!
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