TGIFriday, January 11

Today, in Math, we worked as responsible learners and determined which skills we really needed to work on and practiced them. For some, we made fractions of the class. For others, we created spinners, predicted results, found actual results and then compared the results. Some students used dice or pennies to find probabilities too. We continued to looke at similes in Beaded Moccasins as well as looking at the author's craft with the inner monologue of the character and how the author used italics to show that the character was thinking to herself. Mary has just reached the Cuyahoga River and I was able to show students pictures from the cave where Mary stayed as I visited it quite a few years ago in Cuyahoga Falls. They thought that was pretty cool! It always make a story more enjoyable when you connect to it. In Reader's Workshop, we continued to increase our cadence and stamina with independent reading. Most of us are finished with our personal narratives and were able to free write today while others continued with the writing process. All of these need to be finished by Tuesday so some students brought them home to work on over the weekend. In Social Studies, we performed our skits and commercials. Good job kiddos! Most of them showed their understanding of the times as there were only a few slipups like cooking in an oven... :)