What A Busy Day!

We started our day out with Grandparents Day.  What a wonderful event that was.  I enjoyed meeting each set of grandparents that came through and I know the kids enjoyed having them here :). 

Between Grandparents Day and Center Stage tryouts we were able to squeeze in a math lesson.  We began with our multiplication quiz and finished the hour working on ROUNDING.  While grading spelling tests today I found out that the assignment last night was very vague to everyone.  Due to a lot of students struggling with rounding we went back over the entire assignment and finally got a better understanding of rounding :)

Tonight Austin and Decatur squared off at Ogle Stadium.  Lawren and I showed our team spirit today by wearing our team colors!

Math & Recess

Due to all of the rain last night we had to have recess inside.  This was our first day of indoor recess and the kiddos seemed to find a lot to do to keep them occupied.

Following recess we had math.  We divided into 2 separate groups during math today.  One group played a game called Close to 1,000 while the other group worked on place value, number forms, and rounding on white boards.  Everyone seemed to enjoy math today!

Lastly, there were 2 jean signers today!  Congratulations Joshua and Grayson!  

Read To Someone Continues

We will be launching read to someone for the next 6+ days.  Today we learned the other 2 ways we can read to someone when we are in the classroom.  Two of the ways we read to someone require us to be reading the same book, but the third way we learned today allows us to read 2 different books.  Reading 2 different books can be very challenging so we decided that it would be best if we only let our advanced readers work in that area for now.

The students had an option today of whether they wanted to practice a read to someone skill or read to self.  The students split themselves and half chose to read to self while the other half chose to read to someone.  We practiced our EEKK position and spreading ourselves out more today and I must say the students did a FABULOUS job!

Pitches and Data

Today in science we learned how vibrations and length effect pitches.  The students used a tongue depressor to investigate how different lengths create different pitches. 

By the end of the experiment students knew that longer lengths created lower pitches and shorter lengths created higher pitches.  They also learned that slow vibrations create low pitches where fast vibrations create high pitches. 

Our daily data for this week is I'm an Alabama Fan.  I'm an Auburn fan.  Each student placed their magnet where it belonged this morning and following art and library we made a few observations about our data.

We observed that 9 more people like Alabama than Auburn, 5 people like Auburn, 1 person likes Auburn and Alabama, and 1 person doesn't like either Auburn or Alabama.

We then took some time to learn a new piece to our daily data routine, probability.  We created several probability statements about our data using terms like likely, unlikely, certain, impossible, less than, greater than, and equal to.

We also took another multiplication test today.  We were able to welcome NyKia to the "Smarty Pants Club" following today's test.  Way to go, NyKia!



Happy Birthday!

Today was Alyssa's birthday.  She brought cupcakes to share with our class.

Read To Someone

Today we launched Read To Someone.  The students and I met at the carpet to learn a little about Read To Someone before we gave it a try.  We will be learning different ways to Read To Someone during the next few days, and we will practice this skill with Read To Self for the next few weeks.

Reading to someone will help us build our fluency, improve our accuracy and comprehension, and become more comfortable with reading aloud.  Reading to someone is also FUN because it adds some variety to reading!

Tomorrow we will be working on EEKK and spreading ourselves out more.

Another Smarty!

Sam signed the jeans today!  Way to go, Sam!