Accountability

Today was a day that I was on the ball! I made sure that work was completed and I was checking it off as it was turned in. No more, "I'll do it when I want..." Did your kiddo complete work during recess? It's because your kiddo did not use their time wisely.

We began with M4T and hopefully got enough of the test finished so that we have the majority of the class receiving 8, 9 or 10/10 tomorrow! In meeting today, we shared the one word that expressed our feeling. I heard a lot of "bored" and "tired" which led us to talk about how to make sure that we are keeping our behaviors "Above the line" as being bored and tired will lend itself to working on auto-pilot. Then, we played a few rounds of "Would You Rather?" and then made sure that our goals were fitting for today. If they weren't able to tell me their goal without looking, they wouldn't be successful with it so we made sure they knew it. In Word Study, we edited and re-wrote sentences. There were 10 sentences but they only had to complete 5 and check them with me. If they were good with all 5, they were finished. If they missed 1, they had to complete another one. If they missed 2, they would need to complete 2 more. How many total sentences did your child complete? They then had time for free-writing. In The City of Ember, Lina found Doon and showed him The Instructions and was just as excited as she was! They are headed to the Pipeworks tomorrow to see what they can find! In Reader's Workshop, we finished our work with synthesizing the paired texts and wrote our Dear Mrs. L letter about what they are reading independently. We had Art and lunch and then since it began raining during lunch, indoor recess. After some quiet time and writing our assignments down, we practiced applying our understanding of geometry and played a couple of games. At the end of Math Workshop, students signed up for when they'd like to take the test: tomorrow, Monday or Wednesday. We concluded our day with working on our Great Ohio Mail Race questionnaire and letters.