11-12-13 (love it!)

Today was a very productive day! We began our day working with information on the Mound Builders and reading timelines. We visited the Book Fair after Art to preview the sale. As always, they love the posters but I, along with the volunteers, encouraged them to look at and shop for BOOKS too. :) In Math, we continued our work with equivalent fractions (Explain why a fraction a/b is equivalent to a fraction (n × a)/(n × b) by using visual fraction models, with attention to how the number and size of the parts differ even though the two fractions themselves are the same size. Use this principle to recognize and generate equivalent fractions.) Students had a math menu that they will be completing over the next couple of days with games and activities to secure this understanding. It was indoor recess because of the snow but students did a good job with this today. We learned more about Maniac today in Read Aloud. He finally has an address! Jeffrey "Maniac" Magee is teaching us about belonging and that color of skin doesn't matter, it is the person inside. In Reader's Workshop, we read, researched and worked on Ohio Studies Weekly. We had a great brain break, freeze dance, to some great music! (Thank you Samuel!) We ended our day in the Media Center completing (or what I thought was completing) our research... students have found the bare minimum and I am asking them for MORE!! Your child may have brought home their work to do some research at home~this will count as both reading and writing for homework!