HIGH FIVE FRIDAY, Novel in an Hour, SQ3R, & MORE!

 High Five Friday Gang,

      Today is Friday, December 11, 2015.  Be sure to share high fives with each other today for today is High Five Friday.  Thank you all for a full week of learning, hard work, effort, and engagement.

      Later today, remember this afternoon we are part of the Egyptian Museum Exhibits.  Your work will be on display for you to share your learning with others.  It's an awesome thing to see students learning from other students so be the rockstars that I know you are.  You are the docents, the guides that lead others through the museum exhibits.  You will also get to be the learners that travel through a museum exhibit as well.

      Now, shifting gears to this morning, think back to all the work we have done with SQ3R.  Remember the phases, Survey, Question, Read, Recite, and Review.  It seems that you are all understanding SQ3R at a level that you can now practice it on your own.  Your skills will be put to the test when we get in front of one another to present our chapters.  Most of you are in the REVIEW phase.  When you are able to recite what you have read by looking back on YOUR OWN NOTES, you know you are heading to the REVIEW phase.  Good luck, and happy hunting.

Love, peace, and taco grease,
C-Dawg


From the cluttered mind of C, Teacher
Kenosha Unified School District. 

Of Beetles & Angels: Happy Monday!

Good Morning Kenosha Kids,

      Today is Monday, December 7, 2015.  We spent some time last week reading together, practicing SQ3R, and becoming acquainted with Of Beetle and Angels.  This book will be our reading material over the next couple of weeks. 
We dove into the first chapter and were able to work in groups to make meaning out of what we read together.  We will be finishing our informal presentations today so that we can read ahead.

      Do you remember that SQ3R is a reading and learning strategy that has been around for a long time?  It is still relevant because it works.  SQ3R is an acronym that stands for SURVEY, QUESTION, READ, RECITE, REVIEW.  Let's continue to practice this as we read together this week to find central ideas and central messages in the book.

Finding a central idea and a central message from our reading.

Here is the Vsauce for the week.  Think about revisions, innovation, and mistakes while you watch.  As always, good luck and have a great day.

Love, peace, and taco grease,
Mr. C

SQ3R: Survey, Question, Read, Recite, REVIEW...

 Welcome Friends,

      This is Think Spot.  Think Spot is a classroom blog designed to facilitate learning, further understanding, and connect our classroom conversations.  Today is Thursday, December 3, 2015.  Yesterday, we were introduced to a learning strategy called SQ3R.  This strategy, when done well, forces us to ENGAGE PARTS OF OUR BRAIN.  SQ3R gets us thinking beyond the 4-corners of the text.  SQ3R can become a great habit that moves us to new places in our understanding of what we read and watch.

      Below, is a great video that shows another teacher explaining SQ3R as a strategy for learning.  Before we get into Of Beetles & Angels today, let's also look at this video briefly to figure out where we are in our own reading process.  

      SQ3R
    
      As we read and learn together today, remember that reading is a process.  Reading is a conversation.  Reading is thinking.   Thank you for hanging out on Think Spot and have a great day.

Love, peace, and taco grease,
Mr. C

From the cluttered mind of C, Teacher
Kenosha Unified School District