Tuesday

I hope to see you all at the spaghetti dinner tonight!  There is a 5:15 and a 6:15 seating. 

It was another busy day today.  We began taking notes on our biographies.  Students were looking for facts about their famous people in certain categories: growing up, middle years, later in life and amazing facts.  This process will continue tomorrow.  Figuring out which facts are important from reading a page is a challenge, but we are certainly working on it.

During reading today, we read a Valentine poem and talked about what we noticed and what we liked.  Students were so good at looking at the poem in the ways that we've been talking about in class: the rhythm, the rhyme, the comparisons.... I LOVE it!!!!!  Makes my heart sing for sure!    I also explained the Write About Reading for the week which has to do with making connections.

For word work today, I tested children on the January word wall words. The results will help determine WIN groups for the next round in March.

During math, we did more multiplication.  Tomorrow we will look at division as part of the fact families.  We also had Daily 5 groups.