Staying focused and completing your work
There is a time to talk, and a time to listen
We are wasting a lot of time waiting for people to stop talking and repeating instructions because students are not listening. Summer is over :-( It is time to get back in the swing of things and LEARN!
- Math Review
- Today we went over the math homework and made sure that all questions were answered. Then we discussed our Math STAR results and math groups. Finally, we broke into groups and did our guided math review. Students switched centers every 10 minutes and were able to self check and peer review their work.
- We were interrupted with our first Fire Drill, but we made it out safe and everyone was accounted for.
- Writing
- Students buddied up and shared their writing entries from last nights homework. Then we read the next 10 pages of Dear Mr. Henshaw which gave way to the next writing assignment, 6 more questions to answer about "yourself". This is a great book that shows how to do entries in journals and in answering the questions, it helps me get to know the students.
- Students worked on their Writing Benchmark Assessment. They had to pick ONE moment from summer and write me a narrative that focuses on why that moment was memorable and tell me the story from the beginning, the middle, to the end.
- Reading
- We looked at the reading strategies we came up with on how to be a successful reader (student). Students then wrote down 3 ways to be successful and three goals they have for 2018-2019. We talked about making reading "Like Gold" and then went over the reading results from our STAR READING and what the reading groups looked like. Students then had time to silently read and fill out their reading logs.
Homework:
- Math Review - Take Home Test (double sided) from Friday Skill Review
- Writing Notebook - Questions 5-10 from Dear Mr. Henshaw
- Reading Log - Read for 20 minutes and fill out log
- Math Review
- Today we went over the math homework and made sure that all questions were answered. Then we discussed our Math STAR results and math groups. Finally, we broke into groups and did our guided math review. Students switched centers every 10 minutes and were able to self check and peer review their work.
- We were interrupted with our first Fire Drill, but we made it out safe and everyone was accounted for.
- Writing
- Students buddied up and shared their writing entries from last nights homework. Then we read the next 10 pages of Dear Mr. Henshaw which gave way to the next writing assignment, 6 more questions to answer about "yourself". This is a great book that shows how to do entries in journals and in answering the questions, it helps me get to know the students.
- Students worked on their Writing Benchmark Assessment. They had to pick ONE moment from summer and write me a narrative that focuses on why that moment was memorable and tell me the story from the beginning, the middle, to the end.
- Reading
- We looked at the reading strategies we came up with on how to be a successful reader (student). Students then wrote down 3 ways to be successful and three goals they have for 2018-2019. We talked about making reading "Like Gold" and then went over the reading results from our STAR READING and what the reading groups looked like. Students then had time to silently read and fill out their reading logs.
Homework:
- Math Review - Take Home Test (double sided) from Friday Skill Review
- Writing Notebook - Questions 5-10 from Dear Mr. Henshaw
- Reading Log - Read for 20 minutes and fill out log
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