Make your mama proud!

That was our question this morning. Ask your kiddo how they said they would make you (us) proud today. Did they? We had a very rough day with talking, which we've actually had quite a few of these lately...Mrs. Bowers even came down after special and said that some are losing some of their free choice time because they will not get quiet during Art so that they can get their work done. We even began the day with assigned seats so that we could try to set ourselves up for success. I know they can do it! Shhhhh!

After completing our M4T, Ohio Dailies and morning question, we shared highlights from our weekend and played category challenge in our meeting. Today, in Math Workshop, I told a story about the vending machines in our teacher's lounge and they had to figure some things out about them. Then, we did a gallery walk and looked at everyone's math thinking and discussed our answers and how we solved them. We may have divided but it seems that we all used multiplication. We started with what we know and the problem didn't seem as tough! In Pax, we were introduced to a new character, a human one, Vola. Peter crashed at her barn for the night after breaking his foot and although she's very "eclectic," she fixed him up and sent him on his way. We don't think this is the last we hear of her, though. We read silently while our CSCC bloggers got logged in to Kidblog and set up with blogging about the book they are reading. In Reader's Workshop, we used what we've learned about Main Idea and Supporting Details to research and make our own Infographic! We continued our conversation about Main Idea into Writer's Workshop where we are writing a narrative about our school day. Together, we brainstormed and then got into groups to take these ideas and make them paragraphs-where the topic sentence is the main idea and the other sentences are the supporting details. We'all put these all together to create a Shared Writing Narrative. In Social Studies, we learned about primary and secondary sources so that we can create timelines of our lives. We'll also be writing a narrative to go along with this.