Monday, December 9

We began our day finishing up our balance inquiry project in Science from last week and took a posttest on the material. These should be coming home in the next couple of days. In Gym, Mr. Burkhart said that we had trouble with respect. He said that they are not respecting each other or anyone, actually. So, we discussed manners and respect and students are working to be more respectful to each other, adults, themselves and our things at school. Hopefully, you're seeing this reflected at home as well. In Math, we had a subtraction number talk, the students continued their work with addition and subtraction of fractions with like denominators and they completed an exit slip. After indoor recess, we read a non-fiction book about Hanukkah. Then, Mrs. Dickman, a literacy coach in the district, came in to model a lesson with the students on a character's response to events in a story. Students also had a chance to read and work on this same skill with the book they are reading.  We are going to continue with this work and the framework she used this week to see if it makes our Reader's Workshop more efficient. We took a pretest in Word Study and then worked on our persuasive letters. 

Homework:

Reading-5 entries that are about 3-4 sentences in length

Writing-spelling

Math-fractions