Fabulous Friday

Today, my homeroom had a PJ day to celebrate the 10 whole class Dojos they earned.

After unpacking and signing in, the children completed both the Thursday and Friday section of the vocabulary sheet for our word of the week, significance.  After that, they worked on solving our weekly puzzles.  Once the announcements were over, we switched for math.

We began math with a multiplication warm up, where the students used the area model to solve two equations.  After that, we went over Wednesday night's homework.  Next, we began our rotations.

During the small group instruction, we practiced solving 3 and 4-digit by 1-digit multiplication problems using the area model.  During math with a partner, the students practiced explaining partial products by playing Toss and Talk Partial Products.  Those who finished early, played Multiplication War to increase their basic fact fluency.  Finally, during the technology portion, the students completed a session of Xtra Math.  Then they played Amoeba Multiplication to practice partial products.

In between the second and third rotations, the students enjoyed lunch and recess.

After math, we shared information about the SGA food drive and Digital Citizenship spirit week (Monday is crazy sock day).  Then, we began our literacy block.

While I met with guided reading groups, the students worked independently on the following tasks.  First, they completed a post test from our visit to the Ag Farm yesterday.  Next, they finished the decomposers chart.  Finally, they used their revisions and the rubric I will be using to grade, to complete the final copy of their narrative writing.

Guided reading groups focused on using paraphrasing to help summarize information we read about how the Native American tribes used their environment for food, clothing, and shelter.

I met with each group to work on paraphrasing and summarizing important information.  First, we used text features to narrow down which portion of the text we needed to read.  After reading it once, we reread it and highlighted only the important information that matched our purpose for reading today (how the native Americans used their environment for food, clothing, and shelter).  Next, we paraphrased the highlighted facts in order to summarize the text.

After our literacy block, we had a guidance lesson, with Mrs. Luckett, about including others to be kind.

Progress reports were distributed to each student at the end of the day.  Look for them in take home folders.  These are your to keep.

Have a great weekend!!