We were pretty productive today... In Math, we continued our work with Data Analysis and from their work, I gave a pop-quiz/mini-assessment to see what we still needed to work on. We were about 50-50 for our understanding with answering previous OAA questions--all multiple choice. I think they do very well with gathering, reporting and interpreting the landmarks of data. However, they do not show secure understanding when they have to APPLY their understanding--so what all this means. The rest of the week, we will practice working backwards, understanding the process and they why of each step in data collection and analysis and will take an assessment on Friday to show this secure thinking. The best way to "practice" for this would be to show real graphs and charts (like in the newspaper or online) and ask them questions about what they mean or show or about how the author/source collected the information. In Read Aloud, we had a birthday treat and discussed their behavior from last week with the sub. Overall, I think they were ok-behaved, they just had an issue during the Fire Drill and left the room messy after being asked to clean it up. Mr. Potato Head is not very happy that he lost an arm and his nose... In Reader's Workshop, they worked on catching up from last week with homophones, a reading passage, reading bar and line graphs and playing Boggle. We are also writing a class book inspired by a picture book of poetry we read, There's a Zoo in Room 22, called We Need a Pen in Room 110. They are writing alliterative poetry comparing themselves to an animal, which they worked on as well. We recorded our poem with Mrs. Parker-Jones to be used with Garage Band tomorrow and we published and illustrated this poem during Writer's Workshop. For Science, we concluded our sort of physical properties of matter by actually sorting the objects back out by their materials.
A lot of stuff completed and worked on today, huh?!
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