Soon we will begin Book Talks. We will be having presentations on a rotating basis. Each student is assigned a “season” (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter) Each week, a different season will be assigned to present on Fridays. We will begin…
We Are Multiplying!
Students in Room 204 have been working VERY hard to memorize their multiplication facts from 0-10. We are working together to track our progress along the way. When EVERY student passes a particular Times Table, we add to our all-class…
Fridays are Fabulous!
I don’t have time to log everything that we did today – but I thought I’d at least start with what we saw this morning. I showed the students a video made in Finland – and they were intrigued. In…
Great Expectations
Recently, I organized my hope chest, and came across my third grade report card. I loved school, and it was in third grade that I decided to become a teacher. As I looked at my grades, I couldn’t help but…
A New Year, A New Beginning
WHEW!!!! What a DAY!!!!
I am EXHAUSTED. EX-HAUS-TED!!!!!! We squeezed in so many activities today, with all kinds of fun, that I can’t even see straight anymore!!! Let’s see if I can relay the day in some way…. 🙂 Morning Routine – Schoolhouse Rock!…
Fun-Filled Days
With Camp-Read-A-Lot one day away, we had lots of work that needed doing on Thursday. We finished up our lessons in Unit 2 in Reading Street, wrapped up our second personal narrative in Writing Workshop, traveled to another “region” to…
Race to Camp Count-A-Lot
We’ve started our Big Race to Camp Count-A-Lot. I have given the students a challenge – to see if we can get all 23 students to memorize all of their multiplication tables from 0-10. As we master each times table,…
We Are Resolute!
Every day, we decide who we will be by the actions we take. Inevitably, this time of year brings about thoughts of reflection, resolutions and resolve. I like that Jan 1st falls roughly in the middle of the school year.…
ANSWERing Open Response Questions
This year, students have been learning the steps to strategically answer open-response questions. The first step is Analyzing the question. They start by finding the “trigger” word – and circling it. The trigger word is the one that tells us…