Tuesday, September 17

We had a pretty good day--we are understanding the politics of school and that we need to get our work done and most of the socializing is coming at the appropriate times-lunch and recess. In Social Studies, we worked with partners to complete the Ohio Studies Weekly. This is a magazine/newspaper that helps teach us about Ohio's geography, history, government, economics, etc. Students read the paper, completed a crossword puzzle over the main ideas and vocabulary and completed a map skills activity to introduce themselves to the OSW. In Math, we had a mini lesson on the standard algorithm for addition. I heard a lot of, "well that's easier!" after I showed them this. Others needed to be reminded to line up their numbers but after working with some practice problems and graph paper, I feel much better. They then worked on their math menu. Instead of Read Aloud, we went to the Library Media Center for some work with Mrs. Dorr on the computer catalog and Destiny Quest. These are applications that students can get from home by visiting eSchool through the Student tab on hilliardschools.org . Once there, they can go to the MyLibrary tab and can search for books in our library as well as place books on hold and you can even view what books they have checked out and when they are due. Have your kiddo share this with you. Then, since we had missed most of Reader' s Workshop, we read silently when we returned. For Writer's Workshop, we continued our work with our Book Reviews for Scholastic. Finally, we took our pre-test for spelling. This week we are going to continue our focus on short vowels but with more challenging, multi-syllabic words.