Productive Struggle

In Math Workshop today, a lot of kiddos reached their limit with productive struggle...some pushed through while others were content with not understanding. This led to our discussion about pushing ourselves. I used a sports analogy and asked if they would be content taking the football to the 1 yard line or if they'd rather have that touchdown?! I want them to start looking at school this way.

We spent some time this morning trying to get caught up and finished with our conference presentations after completing our M4T. We struggled with multi-digit multiplication!! (This would be a great skill to practice at home!) In Math Workshop, we split up into groups based on our needs and got to work. Some were working with Powers of 10 and decimals, others were representing their names as fraction and decimals and the rest of us were applying our understanding of decimal problem-solving. Today was Art, lunch and outdoor recess and then in Read Aloud, we were once again transported to the south during segregation in brown girl dreaming. In Reader's Workshop, we took a second look at problem/solution by looking at plot so we read, White Socks Only and completed our story map. Next, we looked at our Lego graphic narratives we made last week (and realized a lot still need to finish...) and wrote the narrative that goes along with it. *We'll be using these to compare and contrast the details included/not included in both. Finally, we concluded our day discussing conflict among the settlers for Social Studies.