Talkative Tuesday

Please talk to your children when returning to school after a long weekend.  They came back today with only part of their homework completed, not ready for instruction, and quite talkative.  Was not the best day for them.  I am sure tomorrow will be better.

• 1st/2nd - Literacy Block
• The morning started with our 15 minute in class breakfast.  Then we went over our word work for the day by completing our Word Ladder.  After the word ladder was completed, students took out their independent reading books.  Computers were passed out and students were tasked at completing their STAR Reading Test.  When done, they could take an AR test or close their computer and read quietly.  There was to be no talking because this test measures reading growth.  Ms. Avalos and myself had to go to an IEP meeting so our literacy coach Ms. Mendoza and our ELL teacher Ms. Almarante circulated and helped students until we returned.
• 3rd/4th - Math Block
• Today was our intro to fractions.  Ms. Avalos did number talks with the students focusing on doubles and near doubles for mental math.  After doing a round of number talks, we did the daily number review.  Instead of going right into the lesson for GoMath 8.1, we decided to do a hands on activity where students physically made 1/2's, 1/4's, 1/8's, and 1/16's.  We did folding and tearing and made a fraction kit to work with for the next several weeks of our fraction unit.  Students can now see what a whole looks like, what 1/2 looks like, etc.  We even started playing around looking to see how many 1/2's it takes to make a whole... how many 1/16ths it takes to make a 1/2.  They get to physically manipulate the fractions to see the part to whole and equivalents.  
• 5th - Lunch
• 6th - Science (With Ms. Galan)
• 7th - Math Wrap Up - Space Intro
• We finished working with our fraction kits and then looked at GoMath 8.1.   After we finished our lesson, we looked at Chapter 15 - patterns in the sky where we previewed our vocabulary for the chapter.

Homework:

• Math 
• GoMath Homework 8.1 (447-448)
• Division Practice #20
• Play with Fraction Kit
• Literacy
• Reading Log - Tuesday 
• Reading Comp - Wk 11 D 1