Hello,
I was pleased with the last math quiz on addition, subtraction, place value and rounding, so we are moving ahead to multiplication a week earlier than I had planned. The math time has become the brightest spot of the day recently. The class is energetic and ready to think. The weekly challenge this week is to plan out the menu for a weekend getaway at Moosehead Lake. Students have Shaw's Supermarket circulars and a pretend $250 gift card. Unfortunately for them, they also have to write out the receipt. They were excited to get to work on it when they left this afternoon, but it is a lot of work so I hope they get started before Thursday night.
We had a fire alarm with bus evacuation drill this morning. Students boarded buses as they would if we had an actual emergency that required them to be taken offsite. Today the buses never left the parking lot, but the bus drivers discussed various emergency procedures with them.
In art, the class started a mini unit on Monet. They painted today and I hear they will be using clay next week. The class started the year doing artwork in the style of Van Gogh. This is my first year sending kids to Ms. Moll, but she seems to be getting them to do some excellent work.
In our parts of speech review, we watched a little School House Rock. Nouns and verbs should be a breeze by fourth grade, so we should fly through those. We will spend more time on the adjectives and adverbs this year.
Islands are mostly graded. I was disappointed not to get to more today. It involves a one-on-one conversation with the island creator, so I can ask questions like, "Which way does the river flow?" Unfortunately the class wasn't overly cooperative in giving me that one-on-one time with their classmates. I would definitely put TO WORK INDEPENDENTLY as one of our class goals. I don't like to be a taskmaster.
The total count for picture books read last week is still a big question mark. Many logs were left at home. Let's get those in tomorrow!
Have a good night.
Steve
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