September
21
The SAN Script – Wednesday, September 21
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
St. Anthony Today
Mathletics has been reinstated – please see my e-mail from yesterday. Discovery will be reinstated today.
Girl’s Soccer Tournament – Paul away, Sandra away
St. Anthony Superstars Assembly – 2:00 PM
Wastefree Wednesdays – Start today
We discussed Wastefree Wednesdays at our Green Club meeting and all students voted to continue this St. Anthony Catholic School tradition.
Please start tracking who has containers/water bottles for snacks/lunches. The students from the Green Club will continue to lead monthly assemblies. Thanks Maria for helping with this.
SOS Strategy for today
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Half the Picture
In essence, the active processing theory rests on a principle of “use it or lose it” (Kaufeldt, 2010). This means that students must be actively involved in what they are learning. This strategy leverages the use of Interactive Student
Notebooks. These notebooks have a “left-side” (output), “right-side” (input)orientation to help students actively record, organize, and process new information. By completing half the picture, students are actively engaged in
their learning and can have an opportunity to share what they’ve learned in anInteractive Student Notebook.
Notebooks. These notebooks have a “left-side” (output), “right-side” (input)orientation to help students actively record, organize, and process new information. By completing half the picture, students are actively engaged in
their learning and can have an opportunity to share what they’ve learned in anInteractive Student Notebook.
Materials: video segment (2-5 minutes), image, blank paper, and writing utensil
1. Find a video and an image that demonstrate the big idea of your unit of study.2. Copy only ½ of the image so that students can not see the entire picture.
3. Distribute the image and have students glue it into their interactive notebooks.
4. Explain that they will now watch a video segment about the concept and they will use information gathered from the segment to complete the picture, label it, and add supporting information.
5. After viewing the segment, provide time for students to draw, label, and add supporting details.
6. Have students work in pairs or small groups to compare their completed picture and examine similarities and differences.
3. Distribute the image and have students glue it into their interactive notebooks.
4. Explain that they will now watch a video segment about the concept and they will use information gathered from the segment to complete the picture, label it, and add supporting information.
5. After viewing the segment, provide time for students to draw, label, and add supporting details.
6. Have students work in pairs or small groups to compare their completed picture and examine similarities and differences.
SUM UP
By completing half of a picture, students are actively engaged in their learning. They have to sum up what they’ve learned as they fill in the other half of the images and take notes on the information. Using Interactive
Student notebooks encourages students to process what they’ve learned and present it visually.
Here is an example of what a student notebook entry might look like:
Student notebooks encourages students to process what they’ve learned and present it visually.
Here is an example of what a student notebook entry might look like:
Additional ideas
•Have students find additional images that support the concept studied, and add those images to their notebook.
•Have students open their notebooks and leave them on their desks. Provide three sticky notes to each student and have students circulate to leave positive feedback and/or ask questions for classmates by posting sticky notes on the
notebooks. If a notebook has three sticky notes it is “closed,” so all students receive feedback.
•Have students open their notebooks and leave them on their desks. Provide three sticky notes to each student and have students circulate to leave positive feedback and/or ask questions for classmates by posting sticky notes on the
notebooks. If a notebook has three sticky notes it is “closed,” so all students receive feedback.
