Wednesday, May 1

Happy May! And what a gorgeous way to begin the month--sunshine and warm temperatures! Today, in Math, we worked on creating our board games. Most everyone is working very diligently, however, I worry that they are more concerned with the artistic design than the math behind the project. Hopefully, everything will come and fall into place with the math and the newness of the project will move to the back burner. In Puddlejumpers, Ernie made it to the furnace in the Down Below and is headed to place the crystal acorn into her mouth to fix everything... it is soo suspenseful, they all said, "NOOOO!!" when I stopped reading today. :) In Reader's Workshop, students read independently and worked on elapsed time in a Comic Strip Math worksheet. In Writer's Workshop, we continued our work with responding to Chris Van Allsburg but today focused on writing a rough draft from our notes. We finished the day with our second try at making Goop...and were successful!!