Thankful

I'm so thankful for each and every kiddo that I get the pleasure to work with each day. I'm not saying that every day is easy and some days leave me exhausted but I genuinely love each child and their family and feel sad to know that there's only a handful of days left this year! I wish I were moving to 5th grade with them! Anyway, thank you. Thank you for being my partner and for sharing in the growth of these young individuals so far this year!

Our day began with M4T and then in meeting, we each shared one "Above the line" behavior we did yesterday with the sub. They earned one potato head piece and other than Math (our hardest time to keep it together), they had a good day. Identifying "Above the line" behaviors is one step toward being able to "press pause" when falling "below the line." Then, we spent quiet a bit of time writing our informational writing. One kiddo is writing about volcanoes and asked how he can make his writing unique...so I looked up the Pixar short, "I Lava You" about two volcanoes finding each other and falling in love but it's also informational because it talks about how they form and erupt and how the process of changing Earth's surface is extremely slow. In The City of Ember, we got a look into the Pipeworks and Doon's first day on the job. He left us feeling dread for the people of Ember... In Reader's Workshop, we finished our work with "The Cow's Horn" and read, visited the library and blogged. We had gym, lunch and indoor recess and then were reminded again how to find the testing portal to practice with the format of the AIR test next week. After some quiet time, we completed an angle sort classifying angles by acute, obtuse and right. Then, we had a plethora of different angle activities involving soccer fields, baseball fields, houses and challenges. We ended Math Workshop with an exit slip and watching this awesome youtube video for remembering angles: https://youtu.be/IT1nuAKSP5o put to YMCA! :) We also read, Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland. Cindy Neuschwander, the author, has my "punny" type of humor! In Science, we are working with how changes to organism's and their survival can be natural and unnatural as well as detrimental, beneficial and indifferent. We are learning about this through a look at sea turtles. Today, we read, Turtle, Turtle, Watch Out! and played a game which mimicked the very poor life expectancy of baby sea turtles. Did your child "live?" As always, our day ended with Wonder time. The group I've been working with is enjoying the extra attention they've been getting and are gaining self-confidence with review of skills-both is literacy and math. Today, we played a game with prefixes.