F-R-I-D-A-Y!

I moved some of our tables around a little bit to try and help with chitchat and I asked students to choose different table mates. Well, they kind of sort of did that but once we began working and moving around, friends paired back up... We completed our M4T assessments and i-Time and then in morning meeting, 11 kiddos read their speeches for why we should choose them for Student Council. I tallied the votes and our class representative is Griffin with Noah and Saya as our congress members! Congratulations! In our math workshop, we continued practicing the skills that we felt needed practiced: place and value, 10x more, patterns, etc. A few of them chose to complete a challenge problem about bicycles posed by a math guru that I follow, Marilyn Burns, who even liked our tweet! They got all sweaty in gym, as usual, and after lunch and recess, we started our new Read Aloud, Nightmare at the Book Fair by Dan Gutman. This book is written where each chapter is written as a different genre. We continued our work with making inferences in Reader's Workshop and in Writer's Workshop, we addressed envelopes...um...a LOT of kids do not know/understand an address, first of all, and second, they can NOT write it on an envelope! Great life skill lesson today! Some, a small handful, were able to find a school in their county for the Great Ohio Mail Race and address the envelope so that they could move on to complete the informational sheet about our school and county. Others, worked for almost an hour on finding a school, IN OHIO, and writing down the address. What a stressful way to end the day...