Wednesday, September 26

What a soggy day, which unfortunately, meant indoor recess. Boo... Anyway, in Math, we took the MAP assessment. This assesses students using a computer program on math skills. It tailors the assessment to how well they perform. As they do well, the degree of difficulty increases. It is given solely for the purpose of another look at their mathematic ability. I am able to see where their strengths and weaknesses are in different math strands (number sense, geometry, etc...) so that I can better help them in Math. After lunch, we listened to the candidates for student council give their speeches and then voted for our class representative. In Reading, we worked more with non-fiction and cause/effect situations, inferencing and comparing and contrasting. In Writer's Workshop, we completed Mad Libs to practice parts of speech and in Word Study we looked around the room and in books for words that fit this week's generalization. We finished our day with Guidance a la Mrs. Vidic.