AHHHH!

Our focus this week is on product and what we are producing to show our personal best. Some are really internalizing this and I've seen better products this week! (For example, we are completing a "Day in the Life" activity in Social Studies where students read about settling in the Northwest Territory or frontier/pioneer life and although I asked for them to wrote about a day as if they were a pioneer and include an illustration, some students have chosen to write a journal and have many entries; or in Math today, instead of only completing a few division problems on each page to complete, they challenged themselves by working with 2-digit divisors or tried to learn the traditional method.) Ask your kiddo about the products they put out this week and see if your child gave their personal best!

We completed days 3 & 4 in M4T (and some people chose to get a head start on their assessment tomorrow). In meeting, after greeting our friends, we shared the one place in the world we would be other than here...I said that I was torn because I wanted to be with Mr. L in the Netherlands but would really prefer a nice, tropical beach... Then, we learned the rules for using quotation marks and practiced these rules with elbow macaroni! Calan said yelled, "It's too loud in here!" Next, we practiced writing. (I've been grading the checkpoint writing assessments we took and they do not look good...too many kiddos are in the 1st and 2nd grade level...) We finished our book, Because of Mr. Terupt and he lived! and he came to visit the last day of school! and the children get to have a do-over next year-kind of! It was a very happy ending. Then, in Reader's Workshop, we read and blogged and visited the library--too many of us visited the library at the same time. We had Music, lunch and :( indoor recess. After quiet time, we worked on division in Math Workshop and completed our "A Day in the Life," pioneer stories in Social Studies. Our day concluded with Wonder/I-time.