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Well, I have lost my voice. It isn't completely gone but comes and goes and when it's here, it's either a really manly voice or a squeaky mouse-like voice...students are practicing their careful listening skills today so they don't get lost! After completing M4T and trying to finish these Ohio placemats, we greeted our friends and met for our morning meeting. In meeting, we shared our favorite apps~some I've never heard of including one called, "Dump Trump..." Then, we tried to play a new game called Laughing Bandana but we weren't that successful so we'll need to try again another time. After our daily goal writing, we met for a Number Talk but instead of using friendly numbers, we practiced using doubles. We did a quick review of reading numbers and identifying their place and value using a little musical "chairs" and then I squeaked out reading Sir Cumference and All the King's Tens. We headed outside to better understand the concept of 10x more by first counting how many times we can kick our leg up for 10 seconds. However, they decided that it would be better to do it for 6 seconds and then multiply by 10 to get how many kicks in a minute. Then, we figured out how many in 10 minutes. Next, using chalk circles for the ones, tens and hundreds, we modeled numbers using each other. We came back inside and completed some work with values using money and then showed our understanding with an exit slip. (I'll use these to now decided who still needs more instruction or practice with 10x more and who can move on.) Today was gym, lunch and a sticky outdoor recess and then more Fish In a Tree. Mr. Daniels cleared things up with Ally and her overall attitude about herself and school was much better today! In Reader's Workshop, we read independently, some of us went to the library, some fixed their quiz from yesterday but this time USED the story to prove their answers, read the fiction story in our StoryWorks magazines and learned some new vocabulary like plunge and glare, and with inspiration from Ally in Fish In a Tree, played a little chess. For Writer's Workshop today, we took a sensory walk and wrote down what we noticed with our senses. We also sketched any mind movies that were created from this walk. It was so relaxing that we actually had two kiddos that kept nodding off to sleep when we returned so we signed up for GoNoodle and did our first brain break-the Chicken Dance with Maximo! After we woke up, we were able to better focus on our Science. I gave them a probe or question: If I have a whole cookie and break it into pieces and crumbs and weigh all of the pieces and crumbs, how will the weight of the cookie compare to the weight of the crumbs? They were given 3 choices and had to justify their reasoning. Then, they got into groups to see what others thought. Finally, I surveyed the class and we found that 9 kids believe that the whole cookie will weigh MORE than the crumbs and 15 students think the whole cookie will weigh THE SAME as the crumbs. I then, asked what we could do to prove which was correct. Of course, they said to try it out with real cookies! And what did this amazing teacher have on hand?? Cookies, of course! We also said that we could use unifix cubes or other things that we could break apart to test our theories. So, tomorrow, we are going to do just that and prove which answer is best. Yum-o!