Tuesday, February 5

Today was a semi-normal day... our special time was changed so Math was split into 2 parts but other than that, we had a great day, typical day. In Math, we worked with division. We began with dividing marshmallows among the class. We didn't estimate too well but each student was able to receive quite a few marshmallows! Then, we practiced some basic division with equal answers-no remainders. For part two, it was a little more challenging as some of the division problems did not come out even and students had to decide what to do with the remainder. For the first day of division, they did awesome! In Read Aloud, Mary realized that things and even people can be replaced but never forgotten... we ended today with Mary saving her family/tribe garden but hurting her hands to do so... I met with the remaining two reading groups to set individual reading goals during Reader's Workshop while the rest of the class read and read out loud with a buddy to practice their fluency, reading rate and accuracy which were most of the goals they set yesterday. We worked with temporal words, linking words, similes and writing amazing introductions in Writer's Workshop. We first looked at mentor texts to get a plethora of ideas and then revised our writing to make it more emphatic and interesting. Finally, we discussed and characterized solids, liquids and gases. Try to add a little of this matter conversation to your dinner talk this evening and see what they can say about what they've learned.