LATE START January, 29

Although it was a shortened day, I feel that we got quite a bit accomplished. In Math, we practiced multiplication and we got at least 4-5 more people securing their understanding. One student seemed to struggle with knowing her facts, not the process so keep practicing those basic facts at home! We continued our work board work in Reader's Workshop and we spent over an hour working on our historical fiction personal experience narrative planning and research. Tomorrow, we will begin drafting the actual story tomorrow and learn how to tie in the history with the fictional story. We completed our day playing a states game on the ipods. I realize that some of our kiddos seem to be geographically challenged when it comes to the other 49 states, capitals and important features. It might be something to look into reading about at home.