Thursday, October 3

Hola! Konichiwa! Guten-tag! (These are just a few of the greetings I received today.) We had a different schedule today due to Guidance and Fall Concert Rehearsal. In Guidance, Mrs. Vidic read Three Questions to the class. This book began the discussion on compassion, empathy and following the golden rule. Ask your child about it~it seemed like a pretty powerful read. Afterwards, we researched the situations from our Weathering, Erosion and Deposition sort that we had confusion on. Pretty much what we decided is that Weathering deals with the breaking down of rock, Erosion deals with the movement of soil, sand and sediment and Deposition is when landforms are created from this erosion and weathering. We had a long special due to Fall Concert Rehearsal so Math was shortened but we were able to play Splat! This game got our brains practicing 2-digit by 2-digit but with multiples of 10. After lunch and recess, we finished up the Humor chapter with Captain Obvious and the Exaggerator. This was a great way to talk about figurative language and literal language. The kids loved that they used immature words like booger and snot but I loved that they learned a little something too! :) In Reader's Workshop, they proved that they knew their Word Study generalization by finding other words that fit the pattern and reviewed pronouns. Students also read silently and/or visited the library. In Writer's Workshop, we took our graphic organizers and used them to write a personal narrative.