Wednesday, January 6, 2016

We had a great morning in room 80!  The weather is getting colder and parents are encouraged to send extra warm clothing items as we do go out for a movement break and lunch recess each day.

This morning we practiced our Read to Self expectations and students are showing us that they have certainly built up their reading stamina!  We were unable to access our laptops this morning but will aim to do a practice run with our RazKids tomorrow and Friday.

We are currently reading a new novel called Follow the Elephant by Beryl Young.  It is a story about a boy whose father has recently passed away and he goes on a journey to India with his grandmother to find an old penal friend that she has not heard from for 50 years.  We are discussing a great deal about emotions and character's motivations as we go on this adventure with them.  Currently, our classmate is in India for the month of January.  He will be bringing us some pictures to share about his trip and we can show him what  we will have learned while he was away!  As we read the book we will also be making connections to our If the World Was a Village Inquiry, learning about what life is like for people around the world.

This afternoon we had an amazing time of learning.  In math we are revisiting our skills with our basic facts.  We looked at the addition strategies we know, what facts come to us easier than others and where we want to be with our facts as we move into adding and subtracting of large numbers. This work will help us in setting a math goal.  We will focus our first math goal on basic facts and which facts we know and which we may need to have strategies for to grow our math brains.  We discussed how different math facts are easier  (usually addition and multiplication) and which are the most difficult (subtraction and division).  Tomorrow we will set our goals and have a plan of action, a timeline as well as be able to tell when we have reached our goal.

We continued our work on our Mars Inquiry videos. Today we added the backgrounds.  We really can't wait until others can see them as they are so cool!  Not only do we know our stuff but adding the detail of the green screen makes them very interesting to view.

In dance we were awesome!! Miss Janelle had some great music for us to move to.  Everyone was really into it. Next we will have to remember to bring the camera to get some video of our moves.

Things to Remember:

1.) If you did not add your information to KidBlog - please look back at what you need to write about in yesterday's blog.

2.)  Fun Lunch orders are due January 19th

Question of the Day:

As we read more and more about Miranda in Wonder we begin to connect to the characters and what they are going through more. Which character in Wonder do you connect with?  What makes that character so interesting?  If you could ask them one question what would it be?