Mrs. Baumgartner is an amazing teacher and someone that I continue to look up to as a friend and mentor. Unfortunately, she retired last year BUT she was back today as our substitute teacher in the morning! Since 11 of our students were in her class last year, it was great that they got a chance to see her again! I was out for professional development/training on differentiating in the classroom for students that are gifted.
They began with M4T and Mrs. B spent a lot of time going over the answers to today's problems, especially area and perimeter. Then, in keeping with our content vocabulary focus in Word Study, we used Science words today to try to figure out. They should have defined and drew pictures for at least 5 words. Next, they continued writing their opinion piece about saving the fig tree. We also had a lockdown drill today so they didn't get to Read Aloud or Reader's Workshop. Music was our special today. After quiet time, we worked with the field trip math problem we had last week about sharing sub sandwiches. Today, however, they tried to make the sharing a bit more fair. Students acted as if they were clueless although I know they had the skills to work on this. So, we had a little chat about riding a bicycle and that at this point in the year, the training wheels should start to come off and that they need to begin balancing on their own. The worst that can happen is that they might fall and scratch their knee but the only way to ride a bike is to just do it. I'll be there to help get them started and to bandage their knee if they need it but that they need to start trying it on their own more. I think they got my analogy. After Math, I gave them time for Reader's Workshop. They read, worked on the fiction story and theme of "The Great Hodgi" in StoryWorks, blogged and visited the library. We ended our day with Wonder time.
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