Tuesday, April 9

In Math, we played some Mangahigh. I even got in on the games and challenged some students. Boy--some of these kids like to cheat! We also worked on fixing some of our misconceptions with the fraction and decimal things we worked on yesterday. We didn't get to read too much of Puddlejumpers but Ernie arrived in Circle, Illinois and said that the town looks parched, like it hasn't seen rain in quite a while... Hmmm... maybe he is the Rainmaker?! In Reader's Workshop, we continued our work with What's the Word? (both on my iPad and using class created ones) as well as clueless crossword puzzles. We also read more Chris Van Allsburg books so that we can better assess our opinion of him as an author and illustrator for Writer's Workshop. In Science, we finished up with our penny experiments... I'm not sure how many kiddos now want to eat at Taco Bell considering we shined up pennies using their Hot Sauce and it worked! Eek!