Terrific Tuesday...a Two Hour Delay

This morning the students completed the Tuesday portion of the vocabulary sheet for our word of the week, conclude.  Then they practiced their keyboarding skills using Typing Club.

After the announcements, we took advantage of some ¨found"time and read a non-fiction piece about the origin of Greek mythology.  Then, I introduced the students to a new program we will be incorporating into our reading block, the reading skill of the day.  Today, we practiced identifying the ,main idea and 2 supporting details of a paragraph.

Next, the students enjoyed lunch.

After lunch, we had a shortened math block.  We began with a decimal review warm up.  Then, we went over last nightś math homework.  After that, we did a whole group lesson about adding tenths and hundredths, both as fractions and as decimals.

There is math homework posted in GC.

After math, we began our literacy block with a writing lesson.  We read a story called, Night of the Gargoyles, by Eve Bunting we discussed writing stories about inanimate objects coming to life.  Then, while the children ate snack, they began a draft of a new fiction, trying to incorporate an inanimate object that comes to life.  Finally, the children shared their writing with their partners.

After that, we began our independent work portion of the literacy block  First, the students read about Zeus, circling unknown words and identifying surprising and confusing parts.  After that, they reread the story, Persephone, and identified  changes to the earth and Persephone in the story.  Finally, students had time to revisit and continue working on their draft from writing today.

Blue:  We shared background knowledge about Zeus.  Then we scanned the text looking for unknown words.  After that, the students read the article and identified three important pieces of information about Zeus.

Pink:  First, we identified and defined unknown words from the text.  Then, we discussed Zeus'strengths and weaknesses.

The students ended their day in art with Mrs. Daniell.