Walk-a-thon

We started our day with a community meeting in the gym to discuss the upcoming garden dedication and Walk-a-thon. We also introduced ourselves to Omar, our new student! In Writer's Workshop, we continued our work with our fictional narratives and in Reader's Workshop, we focused on text structures--the ways authors write to get their ideas/purpose across to the audience, (i.e. description, cause/effect, sequence, etc.). In The City of Ember, there was a big black out and Lina and Poppy were separated during that, which was super scary. Luckily, Doon was there to "save the day!" In Math Worskhop, we moved on to the metric system. We DISCOVERED, using cm cubes, dm sticks and meter sticks, that 100 cm = 1 m, 10 dm = 1 m, 1,000 mm = 1 m. We also found the fraction and decimal equivalents and discovered that the metric system is a lot like place and value. :) Our day concluded with Mrs. Vidic and guidance.