Tuesday, April 1

Technology Tuesday started our day off great! In Social Studies, we continued our work with economics and students were more productive with working through the assignment. They need to SEARCH for the answers and they don't quite realize that...if they knew everything, they wouldn't need school! After gym, we worked with area and perimeter. Students had done a good job with finding area and perimeter until they had to find/solve a real world problem with area and perimeter. Our exit slips weren't that great so we'll be completing more of the real world problem solving this week as it pertains to area and perimeter. After a wonderfully, glorious outdoor recess, we read more about "that Bailey!" in Granny Torelli Makes Soup. Tutto va Bene! In Reader's Workshop, we worked with our Reader's Theater scripts and the themes of these dramas as well as completed some graphing work with the Time For Kids and map skills and comprehension with an Ohio Studies Weekly. In Writer's Workshop, we made a cinquain poem and illustrated our poetry with a fortune teller. (Some kiddos struggled big time with folding the paper! They got too stuck in their heads and gave up.) We discussed how to be more positive with their thinking instead of giving up. Ask them for a more positive way to say, "I'm not good at Math."