Wonderful Wednesday

This morning the students completed the Wednesday portion of our vocabulary sheet for the word of the week, compare.  Then, they played a parts of speech game, online.  After the announcements, we switched for math.

Math began with a logic puzzle to warm up our brains.  Then, we reviewed last night's homework. Next, the students took the week 5 formative, which covered multi-digit multiplication using place value and partial products.  These have been graded and returned to students.  Please look for them in the section of the binder this evening.

After the formative, the children enjoyed lunch and outdoor recess.

When they returned to math, we had a whole group lesson about understanding and using the formula to determine the area of a rectangle.  The lesson included watching, and discussing, a video module, reviewing several slides, and answering a word problem, with a partner.

Math homework is posted on GC.

After math, we began our literacy block.  We began with a writing lesson.  First, the children, with their writing partner, reviewed the two persuasive pieces we read this week and identified the purpose and audience of each.  Next, we read and discussed a new persuasive essay.  Then, we highlighted the sentences that stated the authors purpose and reasons to support it.  After that, the students chose a topic and did a 5 minute quick write.  Finally, the students wrote for 15 minutes, silently, either continuing their quick-write or beginning a new opinion piece.

After our writing block, we ate snack and continued reading Wonder.

Then, the children worked in small groups on their Native American web quest.  Each group was assigned a Native American Society to research and become experts.  As they worked to gather their information, I met with individual students to work on my quarterly reading assessments.  This took the place of guided reading groups.