Tuesday, March 5

In Math, we worked really hard looking at graphs, tables, charts, landmarks and line plots. I explained to them that they do an awesome job going from point A to point Z when it comes to graphing and data analysis. However, they have trouble going from Z to A or even from S to Z. We also tried to label or title line plots to show that we are truly looking at the data. We also got the laptops out and worked with the website ixl.com to practice answering questions about graphs and line plots and such. We read more about Max and Annie during Read Aloud in Heartbeat. Sharon Creech does an amazing job connecting the readers to the characters all while doing this through poetry. In Reader's Workshop, we continued to catch up from last week...unfortunately/fortunately, the kiddos have been so into reading and writing poetry that they got a little behind in their workboard work. They may have brought some home to help get caught up. Then, we completed our day in the computer lab putting our poetry to music using Garage Band. These are sooo cool and we are excited to share them with Charles Smith, Jr. when he visits next week. All students will be getting a CD compilation of our class poetry (but not too soon...Mrs. Parker-Jones has to burn all the CDs for all the students in 4th grade...be patient).