Tuesday, January 15

So I spent the day assessing students on their reading with non-fiction text but I was only out in the hall and could hear that the students did well with the substitute. Her comment was that they were an "active group"--I'll take that. I think that could be why I am so exhausted at the end of each day... In Math, students practiced probability with spinners, dice, letter tiles, and word problems. They practiced fractions with making specified shapes using color tiles. Tomorrow, we will continue to practice and then I will assess on Thursday. I want and think they should be able to apply their knowledge of fractions and probability with all of the extra practice so I will not be giving a review sheet with this one. Check out the standards that came home in the homework packet if you have questions as to what they are responsible for. In Read Aloud, they learned a little about Martin Luther King, Jr. as many of them had been asking why we had Monday off of school. We will also be doing a reader's theater of his famous speech. (In assessing today, I found that a lot of students' accuracy has improved but we still have pretty slow readers--we need to work on speeding up their cadence and this should help with that.) In Reader's Workshop, they read independently, worked on an OAA passage and continued more with the setting they worked with yesterday. Today, they imagined the kind of characters and problems could be possible in their setting. Almost everyone finished publishing their personal experience narrative today in Writer's Workshop! I can't wait to read them, although, from the titles, I'm not positive that I want to as some sound really gross, i.e. Foot Hole, Bloody Hand, etc. In Social Studies, they reviewed what led up to Ohio preparing for statehood. We should be a state sometime next week! Man it took a long time to get to 1803...