Totally awesome!

After going over our daily language review, and working on Math 4 Today, we sorted our Word Study words and found that this week's words have long vowel sounds. We came up with the generalization that when you hear a long vowel sound at the end of a word, there is most likely a y. There are a few tricky words this week, like survey, that sound like a different letter than in the actual word. We then continued working on our small moment story. A few students are ready to start revising but we are going to wait on the majority of the class to catch up so we can talk about revising vs. editing and how important it is to revise our work, together. After Art, we read more from Wonder, this time through Justin's eyes, which is very hard to read! Justin's part doesn't have capital letters, quotation marks and has a ton of run-on or fragmented sentences! AHHHH! Anyway, it was a good teaching moment to show writer's craft. (Thank you, R.J. Palacio!) We also learned about inferences today. We used pictures and made observations first and then inferences-conclusions, informed decisions-afterwards. The observations were the proof for the inferences. We'll be working with making inferences with both literary and informational texts this week. Students were very active at recess today...this was my inference because they smelled awful after! :) We worked on our mental math and explaining our thinking during Number Talks and then played an addition game to practice regrouping. Then came the fun part. I told a story about my friends "Juan," "Tim" and "Henry" and how/where they shop... this was our introduction to using the traditional algorithm for subtraction! Ask your kiddo about my story. We transferred the story to show the mathematics behind the story but they always seem to remember the story if they get stuck. Finally, we completed our day with Social Studies and globe and map skills review--which we totally needed! Some of them thought we had 12 oceans!