One Hundred-Thirteenth Day

Seven students have had the opportunity to use the computer for word processing and have completed their long-term projects. One student is creating an electronic presentation to accompany her hard copy. Today we read an African folk tale about Anansi the spider. We used the comprehension strategy of clarification to clear up ambiguities and new ideas from the story. We reviewed common nouns and commas with items in a series.

We started a new topic (17) in math today about money. We worked with pennies and nickels today.

For Visual Art we practiced and discussed line as an element of art.

Eighty-Sixth Day

Today we blended with /n/ spelled 'kn'. We discussed and used commas when writing dates and geographical locations.

In math we made estimates and compared to accurate counts (homework).

Fortieth-Day

Today we began rough drafts working from our prewriting thinking maps. We discussed using commas for items in a series, stressing the idea of usually using only three items (eg. I like to eat burritos, tacos, and enchiladas.).

In math we used 5 as a constant in the 10's frame (five fingers) to add and then essentially find the difference to 10. You'll find the worksheet in our homework folders.

No table met the standard of 80 grams. So, the goal remains the same for next week.