It's amazing

It is amazing how much can be accomplished when you have four consecutive days of learning! We began with our M4T and other than some small mistakes, students have done well this week. Then, we got a prompt for our LEGO StoryStarters to create a story about holding the winter olympics in our backyard. Students created today and some began taking pictures of their scenes to upload to the StoryVisualizer software where they'll "publish" their short stories about their scenes. Mary and the rest of her 'family' reached their destination--the Cuyahoga River. The kids were amazed that this is a real place and even more amazed that I had been to Mary Campbell's Cave and showed them pictures. The majority of the story will take place here and after looking at my photos, they can visualize what is happening when Mary describes it. In Reader's Workshop, they continued work on their Year-In-Pictures, read and found similes. I finally saw some lightbulbs above heads during Math Workshop today! We used our fraction strips to compose, or add, fractions. Fractions are so hard for some of them to understand but I think they are making progress. I think, too, that some are now better understanding equivalent fractions. Finally, we completed our day with researching about Famous Ohio Inventors.