I was happy with our day today considering all of the possible reasons for cabin fever. We jumped right in to the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution:
We the people of
the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice,
insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the
general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our
posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of
America.
In our study of government, I am going to have everyone in the class memorize this. I think it is important to learn how to memorize passages, and this one explains the purpose of our government, which can be tough to grasp for a ten year old. We went over all of the vocabulary today. I showed them the School House Rock! version twice. That animated song is how I learned it in the 70's. You can look for it on youtube if you're interested in seeing it. It went along well with our afternoon discussion in getting the kids to understand the words of the preamble.
We got into the computer lab this morning. I think half hour sessions will work well for awhile. Just like in reading and writing, the kids need to develop a stamina to work in there for very long. Our first attempt at typed dialogues went very well.
Our long division work is going along very well. It is difficult to wrap your brain around so we will keep at it, but I don't remember a fourth grade class getting it any quicker.
Our read aloud, Wonder, is a book I recommend to all of you. I'll give you some of the great discussion topics as they come up.
Sorry about this week's shortage of blogs. I was just getting back on track and... oops. We only have a couple more hoop practices this semester, so I'm hoping to get caught back up on my work. Anyway, I got back late from Farmington last night and am once again falling asleep at the computer.
Thanks for reading.
Mr. Shea
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