Wednesday, February 20

This morning was all about practicing and reviewing for the Multiplication and Division assessment tomorrow. Please help your child practice tonight so that they feel prepared for the test tomorrow. It is not just about understanding the process of multiplying and dividing but also interpreting the remainder and deciding when to multiply and when to divide... We finished Love That Dog yesterday and began another Sharon Creech poetic novel called Heartbeat today. In Reader's Workshop, we worked with understanding the nuts and bolts of poetry and how to decipher theme and meaning of poetry which led us to writing different kinds of poetry in Writer's Workshop. Yesterday, we learned about the different kinds of figurative language that we can include in our poetry to emphasize our ideas. We have also created a "Poet-tree" to display our poetry. :) We ended the day learning about the people in Ohio in the 1800's and the progression of education too.