Celebrate Good Times...

We earned and kept our final potato head piece! Congrats kiddos! We narrowed our celebration down to 3 choices so we'll vote tomorrow and will most likely hold our celebration on Thursday or Friday. This is a crazy week-schedule wise so extra patience is needed as our schedule will be wonky (book fair, library and technology lessons and fire prevention). In our morning meeting, we greeted each other with OUR handshake and then we shared something we ate this weekend that was unique or different for us. Next, we took this week's pre-test for Word Study and created our lists. (If you want to see your child's personal list, it is written in their planner.) After writing our words in our planners, we discussed/reviewed what a narrative is and what 4th grade narratives should look like as we are all finishing up our first narratives. *Here's where the out of the ordinaries come in... Mrs. Richardson shared books with us that are nominated for Buckeye Children's Book Awards and gave us some time to look through some of them. We came back to the room long enough to put things away and get ourselves cleaned up. Then, we went down to check out the Book Fair! From there, we came back to the room for only a second to get our lunches and things for Music, Lunch and Recess. After a GORGEOUS recess, we had our quiet time and added technology to our menu of things we can do during this time. 10 minutes isn't a lot but if you are quiet, independent and focused, you can get quite a bit accomplished. In Math Workshop today, we completed two Exemplars--real world problems that apply the skills we have been learning. One used rounding and the other used reading, writing and comparing numbers. We have our first test tomorrow...I hope they are ready! Next, we switched gears and talked about getting information and "reading" tables, charts, graphs and diagrams. Then, we practiced doing this using a TFK-Time for Kids. After working at this for awhile, we wrote our assignments down and then had our Wonder/I-time. It will take a little bit of time to truly use this time efficiently and independently but overall, it went well. However, because some chose to keep working after I stopped our Wonder time or socialize, it was a little stressful clean up.