New seats maybe?

Ok. The chatting and talking while others are talking and not paying attention has got to stop. So, tomorrow, we will be getting new seats. This happens every spring and although they aren't doing anything terrible, they are keeping learning from happening. I'll let you know how it goes but I'm sure you'll hear about it! Our day began with 2 FEEP students from OSU! Mr. Smith was also with us as his school, Starling Elementary, is on Spring Break this week. I have to say, it's nice having 2 sets of extra hands! Anyway, we began with "talking." We discussed dialogue and quotation marks. We looked at the 'rules' of adding dialogue to our writing and how we use it to add to our writing. Said is dead! We brainstormed a list of words to use instead of said. Then, using elbow macaroni as our comma and quotation marks, we corrected sentences using dialogue. Mr. Terupt made it! He had the brain surgery and woke up from his coma! AND, the class gets to loop and continue the magic next year. Because of Mr. Terupt was a great read! Then, we got a new StoryWorks and read a pretty creepy story about dolls-according to the children. We also read, blogged and/or visited the library. After lunch and recess, we discovered what we already know about measurement before starting our measurement unit. Listing everything we already know helped us to feel more confident with moving forward. I also shared with them the statistics of students passing their math assessments from the first math test to this last one. On the first assessment, 16 students scored below 72%. On this last geometry assessment only 2 students scored below a 72%. Wow. Again, this knowledge helped them gain confidence in their mathematical knowledge. Finally, our day ended with learning about Immigration. We began with a School House Rocks video, then read some from a book about young, recent immigrants to the United States. Social Studies ended with an Ohio Studies Weekly about Immigration more specifically in Ohio.

Here is a picture of a birthday treat we enjoyed today.