TGIF

We had a typical day today and it was great! We began by playing word games like Scrabble, Boggle, Spill and Spell, etc. Then, we discussed how to hook our readers by writing a good lead in informational text. In The Beaded Moccasins, Mary tried to escape and run away because things finally, were just too much for her but changed her mind when she realized she would die trying to get back to Pennsylvania. We finished our work with the TFK about cool inventions of 2014 as well as read and blogged during Reader's Workshop. Thankfully, quite a few kiddos got caught up with blogging this week! Thank you for your help! After a much needed OUTSIDE recess, we warmed up with fractions in Math Workshop. We composed and decomposed and even wrote story problems involving pizza. (I hear that it's pizza night at many houses tonight!) Finally, we completed our dwellings in Minecraft. The technology worked but only with 7 computers running at one time. Bummer but at least we completed the project. I'm not sure about the fate of MinecraftEDU though...