Today we: Completed week 11 of 12 for phonics. Just 5 more lessons to go! We had 8 students away this morning, so we had a very quiet literacy block. A lot of focus and reading.
In math, we did some extra practice subtracting decimals. The biggest point for confusion is the operation of borrowing from the next place value when the digit is lower than the digit needed to take away. We discussed how the number will borrow 10 and will become a teen number, and the number ahead will lose one. This process was easily grasped, it just took some practice!
Before lunch we worked on our newspaper articles with the help of peer edits and perusing fairy tale picture books. They needed to be reminded to plan it out using the 5 W's, as well as reading it aloud to make sure it flows and makes sense. It is important to remember that an article is reporting an event or incident, it is not the fairytale itself.
After lunch we started our new read aloud. Students were encouraged to brainstorm and word-web what they think the book will be about based on the title "City of Ember."
The class had Music and PE taking up most the afternoon, and we ended the day with an introductory activity to Chemistry. They filled out a chart with what we know, what we don't know, and what we wished we knew. Then we discussed common terms and concepts needed to begin the unit (like solids, liquids, hypothesis, etc.).
Tomorrow, we are "bear"ing witness to Jordan's Principle by bringing a stuffy (if possible a bear) to demonstrate support for the indigenous boy. He was not given the care he needed and sadly passed away at the age of five during the government struggle to decide who would care for him when he fell ill. We will learn more about this tomorrow while holding our stuffies.
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