Man Voice Monday...

I have a bit of a voice but it is very deep and manly and the vibrations make my head hurt!! Anyway, we set a class goal today for: quick and quiet transitions. Students then wrote personal goals to help us to reach this class goal. After completing our M4T, we greeted our friends and shared about our weekends. Then, we tried "Laughing Bandana" again and this time, we rocked it! :) In Math, we began with a video from LearnZillion on reading and writing numbers. Students received their login information for LearnZillion and can now access the videos that I've put in Canvas. Then, to practice reading and writing numbers in different forms, we practiced some edible math! Yum-o! Students had a little difficulty with writing numbers in words. Some are also struggling with the place of numbers past hundreds (thousands, ten-thousands, hundred-thousands, millions) so you might want to ask them about it and see if your child understands. We had Music today and an uneventful lunch and recess. Phew! In Fish In a Tree, Ally continued to grow in her positivity and mindset! We practiced creating mind movies or visualizing as we read so we could clearly understand the story. We also are keeping track of the characteristics that describe Ally so that we can see how she changes over the course of the book. We began Reader's Workshop with independent reading and I conferenced with students while Monday's kiddos visited the library. Then, we moved on to the workshop part and I met with groups for Guided Reading while others worked on StoryWorks and played chess or read independently. Now that our Writer's Notebooks are personalized, we focused on creating seeds for story ideas. Today's focus was on small moments. We read about the small moment that happened that caused R. J. Palacio to write Wonder and the small moment of a teacher in 6th grade that caused Lynda Mullaly Hunt to write Fish In a Tree. Then, we wrote our own list of small moments that could create future stories for us! We ended our day dusting off the cobwebs of our Ohio Textbooks! They are literally older than the kids~16 years old! So, we discussed that some things didn't change, like our history and geography, but we won't be using this resource for government!