Friday, February 17, 2017
New Semester Crazy Weather New Learning!
New Semester Crazy Weather New Learning!
I hope everyone loved their holiday break! It was great to hear all about the students Christmas celebrations and what they did when they did not have school. It was also wonderful to have such big hugs when they returned to school and told me they missed me!!! So many were glad to be back at school, which was wonderful to hear! I missed them as well.
I guess Old Man Weather thought we should not have a full week of school when we return. A blizzard and so much cold weather!!! Burr!!!! While the week is suppose to start out chilly, it sounds like we should be able to get outside by the end of the week. We hope! At least we did get some activities done inside, and the students were wonderful, remembering all their Cadet Pride and working hard! I was totally "wowed"!
While we only had three days of school last week, we did get started on various activities. We also spent some time reviewing the Daily 5 in literacy, the Daily 3 in math, and Cadet Pride throughout the school. Students maintained their stamina in all parts of the Daily 5 so we are ready to get back at guided reading this week. We are using a new "guide" to make sure that we hit all parts of the Daily 5 throughout the week. Students will use the guide pictured below to monitor their choices for the Daily 5 throughout the week and then turn it in. I think it will help the students continue to be responsible in their choices.
We also reviewed perimeter and area, which we were working on before the holiday break. Students made "Perimeter People" (which we also used to review area). Everyone worked so hard and did a super job creating paper people out of 1 inch squares of construction paper. This week we will be jumping into unit 4 in math after taking a pretest.
The students were also excited to start learning about writing with dialogue. To begin this process, we are starting with understanding that dialogue is communication between people. We started writing comic strips!!! This week we will be moving into using that dialogue to write it with proper punctuation in stories.
As you can tell, we are busy as usual.
The sad part of the week was that the Big Blast was cancelled again. Bummer!!! The administration decided they will now hold the Big Blast sometime in March. Lets cross our fingers that works out.
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