Productive

This morning was so productive! I feel, as do the kiddos, that we made some big gains in understanding multiplication, division, factors and multiples! It helps that we only had 18 students but still... :) In our morning meeting, we shared some of our favorite things that make our room special to help Hayden get more familiar with us. Some of the things shared were: warm fuzzies, Mr. Potato Head, games, special seating, morning question... It's not all about the academics~sometimes it's the little things! Then, we played "Just Like Me!" to help him find some others that he may have things in common with. After saying the Pledge of Allegiance and writing our SMART goal, we got to work on math. We did some whole group practice and then worked on our own. Has your kiddo: 1. already taken their test? 2. will be taking it tomorrow? 3. testing on Friday? They have review sheets in their binder to practice with! It was a lovely music, lunch and recess and then, in Read Aloud, we caught back up with Nightmare at the Book Fair! We had left off with Trip in space...?! He is trapped in a historical fiction chapter with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin! Today, he walked on the moon! So much better than dealing with Professor Psycho in Horror, getting pushed out of an airplane in Adventure or accused of killing his principal in Mystery! :) I introduced some new digital literacy resources and after reading independently, wrote reading letters to a friend. In Reader's Workshop, we re-read The Ghost of Specter Elementary, watched an interview with the author and looked at how one of the characters changed over the course of the story, added to our online Canvas digital literacy discussion and transitioned right into Writer's Workshop where Miss Hanlin came in and we worked on completing our personal narratives and conferencing about our writing. Miss Hanlin teaches the Focus class for our gifted program and we will be doing some team teaching on some afternoons. Our day ended with continuing to predict and design experiments to test our predictions in Science.