We swam in a sea of scarlet and gray today! We began our day with Math 4 Today and then finished up our SRI/SMI assessments. On the reading test, 23/25 students showed growth! However, on the math test, only 16/24 students showed growth since the last assessment taken in September. I wish that we grew in our math knowledge as we had in reading. We'll keep working... After Art, we read a gruesome part in The Beaded Moccasins but since this is historical fiction, we can't censor the text and we discussed the why? behind the act. This book is teaching us A TON about reading and author's purpose but also about Social Studies and our history. In Reader's Workshop today, we focused on similes since Lynda Durrant uses a plethora of them in The Beaded Moccasins. Ask your child to give you an example of a simile. We also started creating our Year-in-Pictures. Students will pick 6 events from 2014 to showcase. We'll be working on these all week. We started Math Workshop today with independent math and then went on to our lesson. Today, our focus was on adding fractions and what makes sense when adding fractions. Our biggest aha! was that the whole matters and the size of the piece matters when adding fractions. We ended our day with wonders and inspiration, hopefully, leading to inventions. We read lots of books to help get us wondering and inspired! Ask your kiddo about Rosie Revere, the Day-Glo brothers, dumpster diving, etc.
Have a great evening--Go BUCKS!
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