Monday - Last Day of MP 3 and Early Dismissal

This morning the students completed the Monday portion of the vocabulary sheet for our new word of the week, adapt.  Then, they read quietly.  After the announcements, we switched for math.

Math began with an online Soduko warm up.  The children had a blast playing!  After that, we began a whole group lesson, since we had a shortened math block.  We practiced using multiplication and place value to divide multi-digit numbers by multiples of ten.  We used grid paper (which we determined to be inefficient) and long division.

Math homework is posted in GC.

After math, the students ate lunch.

When they returned to class, we began our literacy block with a writing lesson.

This week we will be completing a week long performance task that will culminate with the students writing a fictional story using the Oregan Trail and westwas expansion as the setting.  So, today we watched a video journal from the perspective of a pioneer girl relating details of her experience.  Then, we looked at a map to examine the route.  Next, we read an article called, "Moving Westward", and then reread it and took notes about the sights and experiences mentioned in it.

After the writing lesson, the students had 25 minutes to work indepdently on the following tasks.  First, they took a vocabulary quiz covering the word of the week for the past 9 weeks.  Next, the completed the Monday portion of the reading skills page for this week.  Finally, they watched a screencast and completed a guided practice activity to learn about complex sentences.

Tomorrow begins the fourth, and final, marking period for this school year.