TGIF! I have never needed a weekend more... this cold is sticking around way too long! Hopefully, after a couple days of rest, I'll be back in tip-top shape. I miss my bubbly self! Anyway, we had a great teachable moment this morning during our inquiry project on weathering, erosion and deposition. Yesterday, they read about Ohio's glacier and how it carved out the land. So, today, while working with our sand, soil and gravel, they put an ice cube on top of each. They soon finally started to realize how their small simulations related to the bigger picture of our Earth. We will keep working with these concepts next week but while out and about this weekend, if you see any teachable moments, take them! In Math, we finished up with our math menu on multiplication from this week. We are by no means finished with multiplication but we are making progress. Please keep practicing those facts at home! In Nightmare at the Book Fair, Trip got away from Professor Psycho and ended up at the Super Bowl! Students also got their Book Genre Bingo forms. They need to read 5 different styles/genres of literature to get a Book Bingo. They have from now until the end of the year to complete this. Heck, if they return it next school year, I'd still reward them. In Reader's Workshop, they created words that fit their word study generalization by playing spelling games like Boggle and Words on my Mind as well as wrting a response about their favorite characters, setting and books. I can't wait to read these! We completed our day by writing about what comforts us. We used opinion writing in a different way by writing WHY things comfort us instead of choosing one thing or another.
**Have your child come to me Monday and say, "Purple Pancakes," and I'll give them a warm fuzzy for you reading the blog! Thank you!
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