Thursday, February 7

The kids were a little crazy today... By crazy, I mean loud AND we got to go outside for recess so it's not that they were stir crazy... Anyway, we had a great day. In Math, we continued to work on the partial quotients method or "marshmallow" method for division. I'm going to teach the traditional method for solving division problems tomorrow but my rule is that if that don't completely understand, continue to use partial quotients as they'll have plenty of chances to pick up the traditional method throughout this year and next year too. Instead of beginning a new book for Read Aloud today, the students worked on their presentations for conferences next week. In Reader's Workshop, we read, worked on our fluency and practiced with some OAA passages. In order to help some kiddos get caught up in Writer's Workshop, some of us worked on our historical fiction pieces while others worked on conference information, which is how we finished the day.