TGIFriday, November 1

It's Friday!! We started our day with meeting up with our first grade buddies and making turkeys! Then, after Mr. B got them all sweaty and stinky in gym, we worked on our algebraic thinking. We went over our posters on frog and toad's jumps from yesterday but then did some whole group learning/thinking with equations and variables. Students did great with this. Next week, we'll see if they can transfer this understanding to other situations. Since we finished Guests yesterday, we read from the Ohio text book about the first people of Ohio. It doesn't seem like fun but was actually a pretty great discussion about how people first got to North America and Ohio. I don't think they minded our learning today. Then, we played "Befudiom" during the first part of Reader's Workshop. Thanks, Becca for the fun game about idioms! For the second part, we read silently as well as discussed the difference between main idea in Non-Fiction and theme in Fiction. Then, we finished writing our "Diary of a 4th Grader" stories. I can't wait to share these at conferences.