Thursday, February 4, 2016

Nothing

We began our meeting by reading a today's entry from a book we have in class, Today I Will: a year of quotes, notes and promises to myself. In honoring Rosa Park's birthday today, we reflected on the following questions:
The question that resonated with us most was, "Do I understand that sometimes doing nothing is actually doing wrong?" and how being on auto-pilot or not participating or doing our work may be doing wrong... Lots to ponder today.

Mrs. Bargar was here today to record us speaking our poems over the Garage Band track we created on Monday. She pulled kiddos all day-here and there so nothing seemed to go typically and kiddos missed certain things and little bits here and though so we're sorry if we don't have the full picture of our day today. While we waited for our turn, we practiced reading our poem with the author's name and continued writing our shadow story. In Art, Mrs. Bowers didn't have a substitute so I sat in on the class with her student teacher. I was so impressed that I completed their Potato Head! Now, we get to think about what our celebration should be... After lunch and outdoor recess, we wrote our assignments in our planner and warmed up during quiet time. In Math Workshop, we practiced understanding composing/decomposing, adding and subtracting, mixed numbers and improper fractions. At the end, we signed up to take our test--is your kiddo taking the test tomorrow, Monday or Tuesday? What are they doing at home to prepare? After playing, Rolling Fractions, we worked on our understanding of fossils using the StoryWorks story,  "The Girl Who Discovered Dinosaurs." For Wonder Time today, students asked themselves, what the WHY is behind the WHAT they are doing...are they working with PURPOSE today?

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