Monday (completed on Tuesday...sorry!)

Our day began with a review of Primary and Secondary sources. Then, we discussed our research project that we are beginning this week. We are going to write "I Survived ____" stories. We read about the books by Lauren Tarshis as well as the scholastic website with a lot of resources about the I Survived series.  http://laurentarshis.com/i-survived and http://www.scholastic.com/isurvived/
Instead of using world tragedies, however, they will be using times from Ohio's history for their historical event to research and write about. What topic did your kiddo choose? After special, Mr. Buss read more about Meg and Aiden with us and their journey, 'on the run.' Then, in honor of World Read Aloud day this week, we read the drama in our StoryWorks. We also read independently, blogged and finished up looking for topics for our research. In Math Workshop, we continued our work with decimals by looking at the equivalence between 7/10 and 70/100 and what that means, truly. Finally, we completed our day by looking at the Math PARCC practice to see what we would be encountering for this test. We practiced bubbling in our answers and looking at the other types of questions that we might need to solve.