It felt like another Monday.

Having a day off in the middle of the week felt like Monday again! I kept asking kiddos how their weekend was!

In meeting, we shared what we did on our day off. I also shared some learning that I did yesterday. I took away some pretty big and important ideas that I have already begun to implement in my life. One of the ideas was to "Press Pause." This idea is part of the R factor or helps us to make the best Responses possible to different situations. Things happen that we are unable to control. However, what we can control is how we respond to the events. If we have good or "Above the line" responses, the outcome will be more favorable than if we have impulsive "Below the line" responses. So, we can "Press Pause" to give us a few moments to think about our response. We want to pause before responding so that we don't go below the line with our response. *This is just a snippet of what we talked about and we'll be working a ton more with this this week but I think it would be a good conversation to have with your kiddo. Like I said, I'm implementing these ideas into my whole life. I think I told Ella, my 12-year old, to press pause like 5 times last night!* Then, we continued researching our topics for Writer's Workshop. In Nightmare at the Book Fair, we finished up our chapter on historical fiction and Trip got to walk on the moon! For Reader's Workshop today, we just READ! and it was glorious! We spent the last few minutes voting for the Buckeye Children's Book Award, got to work with clay and creating our sugar skulls in Art, ate lunch and had recess. We wrote our assignments in our planners during quiet time and then in Math Workshop, made the connection between multiplication and division. TOO many students put up a block with division. They know how to divide but don't know they know! :) We discussed fact families and that helped a lot. We worked on our weathering and erosion brochures in Science and finished up the day with a crossword puzzle and maze for Wonder time.