International Dot Day!

Happy Dot Day! We "Made our Mark" along with Darby Creek by creating a human dot! It was very cool to see all the support from students representing their grade with their colored shirts! Thank you for your help with this. Here is a picture I took of the drone flying above to take the picture alongside the moon-very cool! (HR imaging took a picture using the Norwich Fire Department Ladder truck and I'm sure there will be more pictures tweeted or released somewhere--I will let you know when I find out where to locate them.)

After we created our dot, we finished up Part Two of Wonder and can understand a little more about Via, or Olivia-which she likes to now be called. The next part will give us a closer look into Summer and her relationship with Auggie. We also worked with Informational text features through the Time For Kids. In Math, we took a 5 minute addition fact fluency check. Most kids are able to solve the addition problems with sums around 20 or less but are working to complete this more fluently. We'll periodically check in to see if they're getting more efficient with fact fluency, with all operations. We have been learning/practicing rounding but today applied our understanding to multi-step word problems. I've never, in my adult life, been asked to round a number to the nearest thousand! I explained this to them and that they will need to USE the skills in other ways, i.e. organizing a food drive, having a party, concessions stand at OSU football games, etc. Finally, in Science, we began an inquiry project where the students are investigating how a balance works.