Tuesday, October 22

This morning we worked on our reading stamina.  Students choose the goal of 18 minutes and they achieved this goal.  Why build a child's reading stamina?  Here are a few thoughts

Spending longer periods of time reading means fewer interruptions and more time reading what you love. As your child moves into higher grades, having reading stamina will help your child navigate the longer texts and assignments.

-www.readingrockets.org

...when it comes to building literacy skills, the relationship between putting in the practice it takes to build skills and the success that feeds the desire to practice presents a paradox—even a Catch 22. To get better, students need a lot of practice and exposure to reading. Putting in that practice demands sustained effort or stamina. A key motivator for continuing to practice (thus building stamina) is experiencing some success...

-Education Leadership, Feb 2017

We begin with Read to Self because it sets an essential foundation for creating lifelong readers, writers, and learners who are independently motivated.

-The Daly Cafe, by Gail Boushey & Joan Moser, 2009

We wrote the second part to our math test today and I'm hoping to have the test back to you by the end of the week.  In social studies we discussed how Canada is a very diverse and multicultural  country.  In science, we learned out different points of the thermometer.  In health, we read a book called "Voici Triangle" by Jon Klassen and discussed how sometimes jokes we think are funny are not so funny to others.

building our reading stamina