Metacognition is the biggest grade 3 word ever and it should be dropped at the supper table tonight by your student! Metacognition is not only fun to say but a really impressive word. It means to think about your thinking - good readers are always thinking with their book. Together we talked about the word and then we made a reading salad - complete with books and brains. Every time we read a page we dropped a book into the reading salad when we stopped to think out loud about the book we dropped in a brain. We discovered that we had way more thinking than we did pages of the book in our salad. Students then practiced with their own brain paddle and a partner - reading and thinking.
What can change a rock? We made our own rocks with plastercine so that we could start to answer this question. We know that heat and pressure, compaction, melting and cooling will all change a rock. When we watched Magic School Bus we learned that weathering and erosion are also factors. Every one should now have a rock at school.
Black and Orange day Wednesday Oct. 31
Canadian Ballet Tuesday morning - did you return your form?
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