Two for Tuesday!

I had conferences until after 6:00 last night so I'll blog about yesterday and today! Yesterday was a typical day-nothing out of the ordinary. We discussed what made our weekend magnificent and shared our playground structures in our morning meeting and then got to work on our differentiation dice tasks for Math Workshop. We continued with Pax and got a new StoryWorks in Reader's Workshop. We are reading the drama, "When Girls Ruled Baseball." We'll be discussing setting and historical fiction and I think we'll even be acting this one out! Then, in Writer's Workshop, we began pre-writing or brainstorming for our personal narratives inspired by an event from our timeline. Finally, we got to work on our timelines! :)

Today, we had an out-of-the-ordinary morning. We began with a K'Nex challenge of building a bridge that spans 1 or 2 meters without support. They LOVED this! Then, we only had a small amount of time to work on our math because I had them complete a quick assessment to see where they are and too many (9!) missed the subtraction problem... even ones that were secure with subtraction before! So, this is something that can be practiced at home. I can put up some links in Canvas to subtraction practice. We also went to the book fair to preview and create a wish list. Some took pictures with their device and others wrote down titles and prices. If you'd like, you can send them with money tomorrow to purchase. The book fair will also be open tomorrow evening and then again during the school day on Thursday to purchase too. In Pax, we did some big thinking today. Although we still think Vola is a little crazy, she is also pretty wise! We read independently and then wrote about the setting of our book including textual evidence. Since this new story in StoryWorks is a little lengthy, we took another day to read it and complete the vocabulary and watch the video that accompany it. In Writer's Workshop, we continued brainstorming and organizing our pre-writing. Finally, we completed our day working on our timelines.