Prepping for conferences

On Wednesdays, we have 7 kiddos out for the majority of the day, so we started our day by spreading out. We completed our morning work, some answered the morning question and then had i-time. Then, we worked on our Google Slides conference presentation. We are working hard to identify our strengths and weaknesses as well as samples of our work and all we've been up to. Then, in Math Workshop, we worked on understanding the idea of decimals on a number line, as money, as fractions and using base-10 blocks. Today was Art, lunch and OUTDOOR recess! In Read Aloud, we looked at The Story of Ruby Bridges and Through My Eyes (both stories about Ruby Bridges), If a Bus Could Talk and I Am Rosa Parks (both stories about Rosa Parks) to get an idea of the differences of the times for brown girl dreaming. Jacqueline Woodson is now one year old in our book and moving from Ohio to the south, or South Carolina-where things are different when it comes to the color of skin... Next, in Independent Reading, students were able to read the books about Ruby Bridges and Rosa Parks and we also decided upon our February Book-it! goals when conferencing with me. We watched a video in Reader's Workshop, by the author, Lauren Tarshis, of "Disaster in Space" in StoryWorks and answered some questions about it. Afterwards, I introduced them to the StoryVisualizer software for our LEGOs we'll be using tomorrow and we completed building and taking pictures of our beginning, middle and end of our narratives.