Stephen Hawking (quote)
January 8, 1942 - March 14, 2018
BAILLY'S WORD OF THE DAY
Eager: enthusiastic and anxious to begin
1st GRADE LA
A NEW LESSON: We started a new lesson this week. As usual, our new lesson always starts with a message to decipher. By deciphering these messages the students must use clues from the title and other connections to find the answer. These clues always lead us into our next lesson, Connecting Words and Numbers - Text Talk. On Tuesday I introduced the students to the book Wumbers. This book connects number sounds into words. An easy example is L8 meaning 'late'. I asked the students if they ever tried to read licence plates and figure out what word or phrase the letters and numbers made. They didn't know what I was talking about...WHAT????.... I love trying figure them out. This lesson will help the students develop and apply phonological awareness, word recognition, spelling and vocabulary skills.
2nd GRADE LA
THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX: We have started The Tale of Despereaux. It is written by Kate DiCamillo, the same author of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. We will be tracking the text to text connections we see between the two books along with text to self and text to world. The homework is the same format as it was with Edward Tulane, reading a few chapters (no worries, they are short chapters) and completing a Reading Analyzer.
HOMEWORK: Read chapters 10-13. Reading analyzer on chapter 12.
3rd GRADE LA
~We only met on Monday because of IREAD testing Tuesday~
T-CHART COMPARISONS: Monday we worked in two groups comparing our T-charts of the books, Me...Jane and the The Watcher. By comparing our charts and adding details discussed between classmates, students will have more information to help write their persuasive paragraphs next week.
4th GRADE LA
PRESENTATIONS: We had 5 of our 7 students present their Biography projects. The students have worked hard and have done an amazing job so far!! We are noticing similarities within all of our Agents of Change and identifying that each agent had great determination and a an influence that guided them. I am impressed that the students have seen that not all reasons or influences were positive but the change they created was. I had the students record each others presentations and will email these to you.
1st GRADE MA
TWO LOOP GAME: This week we continued to work on categorizing the attributes of our shapes using Venn Diagrams. We then started a worksheet where the students were given the shapes located in the Venn Diagram and the needed to fill in the correct attribute. We will continue this again next week as some of the students are still struggling how to decide identify the missing attribute name.
2nd GRADE MA
THINK DEEPLY AND REVIEW: On Wednesday we finished our Think Deeply over Lesson 2 Floor Design. This lesson required the students to use 3 Dimensional and 2 Dimensional shapes to create a playground floor design. Thursday we combined foam 3 Dimensional shapes to create different prisms, this was to review for our chapter check up we will be taking next week. I think these guys are more than prepared for it!!
3rd GRADE MA
700's CHART: Find the missing number in the ink spilled 700's chart. The student had to fill in missing squares in a 700's chart. To complete the puzzle, the students were given one number and had to utilize their knowledge of the ones, tens, and hundreds place value and the patterns the hundreds chart gives to answer the questions.
4th GRADE MA
WHAT MAKES A YARD?: This week the students were given a list of fabric remnants less than a yard; they were then asked to put 2 pieces together to create 1 complete yard. Many found this to be easy, which it should for them at this point. Our next worksheet asked the students to create a complete yard by combining 3 or more remnants. We will continue to do the next week because the different denominators are giving some of the students trouble. There is a pattern I will have one of the other students point out on Wednesday, this will help those who are struggling see what the other options are.
HINT: If you have 4, 1/8th remnants, how is this similar to your 2, 1/4 remnants and your 1/2 remnant.
