Manic Monday

I don't know what it is about Mondays...

We started off with completed our M4T and realizing that students need to practice their multiplication! Some forgot how to multiply--uh-oh! Then, in Word Study, we focused on homophones. We watched a cool little video :) and then used what we recognized and learned to write a short opinion piece. Which would you rather have: the ability to never need sleep or the ability to read people's minds? Most students picked to read people's minds but clearly, as an adult, I say that there is never enough time in the day and would love to not need sleep! In reading Love That Dog, we found that poetry is full of emotion and feelings, which is what makes is awesome. Some were even eager to begin writing their own. We also learned about onomatopoeia-ask your kiddo what that is. After lunch and recess, I handed back our math assessments and overall, they did better. Then, for today, we looked at multiplying fractions by whole numbers. This was a great connection to multiplication being repeated addition and knowing how to add fractions. We read a book, Full House and completed a couple of realistic problems based off the book. We also used a new problem solving model to help us understand the problem better. Does your child like number lines or models better? Addition equations or multiplication equations? Finally, we listened to a few more pitches for our Science inventions.