Fabulous Friday!

The kiddos were bummed at realizing they had to sit where I placed them the other day but understood that they were more successful in those spots. We made a few tweaks here and there but overall, they are in "assigned" seats. Hopefully, we'll finally get 10/13 of the class with 7, 8, 9 or 10/10 on their M4T test so that they get a nice treat Monday morning. Fingers crossed! After completing the M4T test and watching the news, we continued writing our fictional narratives. I'm hoping to get them able to bust out multiple paragraph stories with a beginning, middle and end by April when they'll need to write two for the AIR test! The more they write, the better they'll write! Sophie's plan was revealed in The BFG and the dream has been mixed for the Queen. Now, they are off to London to try to rid the world of giants eating the little chiddlers for good! :) In Reader's Workshop, we had our final day of working on the debate and poem in StoryWorks. We also read and visited the library. Today was Art, lunch and indoor recess. We wrote in our planners and had some quiet time to meditate and create calm. Then, we re-took the Unit 5 Math Test or if we felt we did our best on the test, worked on creating and writing decimals and fractions using base-ten blocks. We all ended up working with creating, writing decimals and writing the decimals as fractions. In Science, we practiced making and DOCUMENTING observations using Mystery Bags. Students were more interested in trying to guess the items than with making observations so we are going to come back to this next week and try to come up with some better and more scientific observations. In thinking like scientists, we make inferences based on our observations and then as we collect more and more data, we change our ideas and inferences. So, after they've seen what the objects in the first 3 bags were, they can have a more scientific second look at the rest of the bags.