What a great start to the week! First of all, we have a FEEP (First Education Experience Program) student from The Ohio State University that will be observing for the next few months. This is his first official time in a classroom as he is studying to be a 4th-9th grade English Language Arts and Social Studies teacher. Mr. Buss will be visiting with us about 2-3 times each week, for the morning only, until the end of April.
Our morning began with Boggle. Students created words by connecting letters. Then, we reviewed/learned about collecting research and informational writing. Students kept with our invention/inventor theme and wrote a question that they want to find information about. What is your kiddo researching? After a sweaty gym class, we read The Beaded Moccasins. After reading today, we discussed how characters change throughout the course of a book and talked about how Mary has changed. We also talked about why the author uses so many similes... In Reader's Workshop, we discussed their blogging and 30 book challenge. Some have read and blogged about very few books and are not looking too successful thus far, so, I gave them time to read and blog today. They also had a TFK about the Cool Inventions of 2014 to peruse. In Math Workshop, we began with a gallery walk and students are finding that some kiddos are focusing too much on the artistic side of their posters instead of the mathematical thinking. Then, we worked with composing candy bar fractions and ended with decomposing pounds of chocolate! However, the big, wondrous part of the day that I'm sure you'll hear about is that we got onto MinecraftEDU to create Ohio as it was in the 1700's with the settlers and Native Americans.
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