Another day, another 6 paws.
Our students are really knocking it out of the park this first week. We have done so well with our lines and our hallway behavior that we have gotten five extra minutes of recess each day so far this week, and are already up to 20 paws on our lion. It’s unreal.
We spent our morning again reviewing how our classroom should look and act, and then talked a great deal about character traits. We split our character traits up into categories (negative, positive, and neutral) and had some really great discussions about how we might view some traits as good in some situations and bad in others. The students really got into debating this among themselves and with me.
Next we took some time to write a short story about an event in our life that we thought was very special, or interesting. We then talked about how we can expand on this story to add details, and answer questions that our readers might have. We split into pairs, and did TAG:
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Students wrote down what their TAG partner said, and their homework tonight is to re-write their story using the suggestions and questions from their partner.
In math, we talked again about base 10, and did a lot of work describing numbers in many different ways. We took a good amount of notes on this, which can be found here:
Students also have a worksheet on this to complete tonight:
Finally while I did some last MClass and other assessments, the students had what I like to call D.E.A.R. time: Drop Everything and Read time.
So tldr;
Re-write short story from writing today using the suggestions and questions their partner gave them (TAG)
Base 10 worksheet
As always, read for 35 minutes and get a signature
Have a good one!
-Mr. Potter