Last night was Parent EdCamp and I organized the event so sorry about the two-day blog today... Thank you to those that participated last night-I hope you enjoyed the experience!
Yesterday, in the classroom, we started with our morning meeting. In our meeting, we read, The North Star by Peter Reynolds. It's a book about following your own journey and accepting where it might take you. It was a great read and went really nicely with the book we read the other day, There and our goal setting. If needed, we adapted our goal from the previous day with discussion about why are we changing as well as why haven't we accomplished. In Word Study, we did Prove-it! to show that we understood the generalization--short vowel sounds. We talked about the Writing Process and related it to building an ice cream sundae. Then, we got our 'dishes' for pre-writing/brainstorming a piece of writing. We finally were able to read, Wonder! It was a very poignant part of the story where Auggie overhears Jack Will saying extremely bad things about him...and he thought Jack was his friend...I finally met with some kiddos for a reading group too! I love this small group time to really dive into the process of reading and what we are doing to help in making kids better readers! I had been dying to start pulling groups! In the afternoon, we had a number talk and continued to develop our mental efficiency. We reviewed the idea of 10 times bigger and completed day 2 of our choice activities. I was able to meet with everyone in a small group setting to assess their math thinking too. (Did I mention I love pulling small groups?!) Finally, we completed-mostly-our balance inquiry.
Today, with the substitute, they were supposed to complete a vocabulary game with their word study words for Word Study and write questions they have about anything in their writer's notebooks for Writer's Workshop. The Recess Queen about "Mean Jean" was read aloud while they worked on a character analysis of Mean Jean. Then, during Reader's Workshop, they were to read independently and complete a character analysis of the main character from their independent read. We had a shortened Math Workshop due to Guidance so in Math, they reviewed the ideas of place, value and ten times bigger. Finally, they finished up their Ohio Studies Weekly or their balance inquiry. I hope they didn't leave me a mess and I'm sure they'll let you know if anything good went on without me today. I think there may have been a birthday treat...
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