Better...

We began our day making a Plus/Delta chart or a chart describing the things we are doing well (Plus) and the things we can do better with (Delta). Then, we talked about what we can do to make these things better.

As you can see, there are things that we all need to do to make things better, however, the majority of them can be made better by the students using self-discipline. Please help to remind your kiddo about using self-discipline at school. Then, we came up with our word for our puzzle piece from our Community Meeting on Friday. Ask your child what our word is! We didn't have a lot of time for Writer's Workshop but I gave them a preview by reading the book, I Will Not Read This Book. You'll get a chance to read this writing piece at conferences next week! After gym, we read Number the Stars where the Nazi soldiers came to Uncle Henrik's to see why there were so many people there. They were able to cover this because of the "funeral" for "Great Aunt Birte." Ellen's parents arrived and now we are wondering what will be happening next! They did not want me to quit reading! In Reader's Workshop, we read, visited the library, blogged for Columbus State and then all wrote about our reading. Again, we really need to work on writing our amazing thoughts so we worked with our fiction independent reads today. It was a glorious lunch and recess! Then, we worked on our problem solving with an exemplar about bricks or crayons. The focus, however, was on sharing our thinking in writing and so after we solved the problem, we demonstrated this solution on a poster and shared it with the class. We looked at the rubric from Exemplars to show that the solution is only one small piece of the "puzzle." They have this rubric in their binders if you want to take a look at it. They can explain the puzzle piece connection. Finally, we completed our Science Weathering and Erosion labs. We got the messy stuff out of the way and will be discussing our findings tomorrow.