Tuesday, December 3

We began our day with updating our social media bulletin board for Technology Tuesday. Ask your student what their social means of communication was. Then, in Science, we continued our balance inquiry. Students are starting to see the connection between the numbers that their hexnuts are hanging on and algebra/math. Yay! After our first ever free art, we worked more with fractions by sharing the number stories we wrote yesterday about pizza. Then, we continued this momentum by practicing/reviewing equivalent fractions. Finally, we finished the class making "Fraction Avenues." In Read Aloud, students realized just how bad the feelings and ignorance was between the East End and West End neighbors. Maniac brought Mars Bar to the McNab's and it was not pretty. We added to our description of Maniac the adjective, brave. In Reader's Workshop, students are really struggling with building their independent reading stamina. Please help your kiddo with this skill by having them read at home, uninterrupted for 20+ minutes. Also, help them to read all different kinds of books, magazines, newspapers, etc. Unfortunately, the majority of the class seems immature in their reading independence. How are they doing with their Book Genre Bingo? If they need another copy, I have plenty! Finally, instead of Writer's Workshop, we celebrated our classroom reward of completing Mr. Potato Head by having 30 minutes of extra recess!! Today was a great day~we even earned our first piece to Mr. Potato Head for our second reward. Well, actually, this time we are making a Mrs. Potato Head... :)