TGIF! October 25

I was exhausted today so I bet the kiddos were too... This morning, we finished our perspective writing pieces and hopefully, secured our understanding of slow and rapid processes that shape our Earth and how landforms are created. Some also worked on their ABC Ohio book. In Math, we finished our assessments. I will grade these over the weekend and send them home on Monday. We will be working on a 10 (or more) day unit, starting Monday, on Algebra that the district gave us to use in teaching Operations in Algebraic Thinking. They will continue to get support in numbers and operations throughout this unit so they should be securing their number sense. Most of them understand the concepts but are unclear of the language of the common core and applying these skills. This will get easier the more we work. After lunch and a very chilly recess, we read more about Moss and Trouble's "away time" and I am predicting that Moss might be headed back home... We worked on Time For Kids about the government shutdown during Reader's Workshop. In Writer's Workshop, we picked the topics we will be researching for our "Diary of a ____" piece that we will be making and sending in to Scholastic for a contest they are holding. We finished the day with a little organizing and cleaning up our space.