Thrilling Thursday - Surprise Guest Reader

This morning the students completed the Thursday section of the vocabulary sheet for our word of the week, represent.  Then, they tried to solve the puzzles for this week.  After the announcements, we switched for math.

Math began with a magic square warm up.  Then, we went over the homework from last night.  Next, we began our rotations.

During the small group lesson we  practiced estimating and finding the product of  multi-digit whole numbers, but today we focused on choosing the most efficient strategy.  During math with a partner, the students played a board game of Snakes to practice multiplying multi-digit whole numbers.  Finally, during the technology portion, the students completed a session of Xtra Math and then chose a game from the Multi-Digit Multiplication Live Binder to practice that skill.

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

Math homework is posted in GC.  We will have a formative tomorrow covering multiplication of multi-digit whole numbers suing the standard algorithm.

After math, we began our literacy block with a writing lesson.  First, we reviewed that adjectives are words that modify nouns and practiced generating some.  Then, we reread a passage from the story, Morning on the Lake, and identified adjectives, and the nouns they modify.  After that, the students worked silently to find places they used, or could use, adjectives to describe nouns in their stories.  Then, a few volunteers shared their favorite sentences that had adjectives modifying nouns.

Next, the students went ot music with MRs. Graf.

When they returned to class, the children ate snack while I reviewed the Stop*Think*Paraphrase strategy for summarizing.  Then, we read chapters 7, 8, and 9 of WTMMTM and practiced using te strategy.

Unfortunately, we began to run out of time.  So, the students had a few minutes to work on the Thursday section of the reading skills page and write a pargraph about a character trait they could infer about Minli, using two pieces of evidence fro mthe novel to support it.

The day ended with a guest reader.  My mommy came to read, The Butter Battle Book, by Dr. Seuss, to the class.