Monday, January 14

Today was a little abnormal in that I was out this morning to take my daughter to an appointment but the learning was still the same--they had a great substitute! In Math, they worked on creating all the possible combinations of probabilities. For example, if they had 4 different color shirts and 4 different color shorts, what are all the different combinations? According to the sub, this went great. I was back at lunch only to "remember" that I had a meeting to plan library and technology for a little while in the afternoon... :)  Students read more Cinderella books-this time about a dinosaur and one about big foot. I'm sure they had a lot to say about the settings here. Then, in Reader's Workshop, they read silently, described certain settings using all different parts of speech and completed a reading OAA passage from a previous test. In Writer's Workshop, they continued with the writing process on their personal narratives. Some are very behind and might need to work a little at home. This CAN count for their writing homework. We got new words in Word Study and in Science, we made before and after pictures of Earth's Surface with rapid processes.