Wednesday, October 30

We began our day with a story, Miss Nelson is Missing. Ask your kiddo about it and how they can connect it to us. We also decided to focus on the core virtue of Self-Discipline this week. After our class meeting, we worked on helping to keep the Earth from being too damaged by Earth's processes. They came up with some great examples, even some that weren't too realistic--missiles? After Art, we worked with open number lines and division. Then, we worked more with the California Frog Jumping Contest and frog's and toad's jumps and where they meet up. This was helping them with multiples, factors and algebraic thinking-solving for the unknown. We had a great lunch and recess and then read from Guests. Moss' father told a wonderful story about how the people came to be where they are. We should finish the book tomorrow. In Reader's Workshop, we worked with inferences, buddy reading to find theme and main idea and silent reading. After a "Would You Rather" brain break, we applied our understanding of timelines as well as preparing for the final project of our research and wrote "Diary of a 4th Grader" stories. They really enjoyed these!