Wednesday, April 23

Do you remember School House Rocks?? We started learning about Government and Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities so I showed a couple videos this morning. We watched "Three-Ring Government" and my absolute favorite, "I'm Just a Bill" along with a second viewing of "Preamble." LOVE those videos! Then, students worked more with the Ohio Studies Weekly on Rights and Responsibilities. After gym, we took Math outside and did some multiple choice test prep by moving to our answer choice. They really enjoyed this. After that, we worked in the room on writing expressions and equations and using Venn Diagrams with math and numbers. After a brisk but beautiful recess, we listened to more of Bud, Not Buddy. Afterwards, we played a matching game with synonyms and antonyms before settling into Reader's Workshop, where we read independently, worked on main idea and inference using a non-fiction passage and played a synonym/antonym superhero game. For Writer's Workshop today, we continued our work with Dictionary skills and played Dictionary/Thesaurus Roll-a-Word.