Tuesday in Room 301

• 1st:  Music with Ms. Young
• 2nd: 
• Library to check out new FICTION books for our new reading and writing units.
• 2nd/3rd:
• Reading Block: Interpreting Characters - Session 2
• The focus today was on picking the right book you want to read that is not to hard and not to easy.  Once you find that just right book that you want to read, you read it and read a lot.  We read chapters 2-5 of The Tiger Rising so we could discuss character traits and how to prove them with text.
• During independent time, students practiced asking questions and taking notes in their books while I worked with students on Running Records to see the progress they are making in reading.
• 4th/5th:
• Math Block: GoMath 6.2 - Making Equivalent Fractions with multiplication
• We reviewed yesterday's lesson using models to make equivalent fractions.  Today we used multiplication.  The rule is whatever you multiply the numerator by, you have to multiply the denominator by to get an equivalent fraction.
• 5th
• Writing Block: The Literary Essay - Session 2
• The focus today was looking at a story we already read and looking more closely for clues the author leaves us about the characters.  We reread parts of FOX and practiced this skill.  
• 6th - Lunch
• 7th:
• Writing Block Continued
• We focused on five things to look for:  Character traits, Character Motivation, Character Struggle, Character Changes, and Character Relationships.  These were topics we could talk about and discuss using the text to prove our point on them.
• We read a new short story - Fly Away Home about a homeless family who had to live in the airport and what their lives were like.  We discussed these different topics about the story when we were done.  Students have to then tonight write a short 3 paragraph literary essay discussing one of these topics:  Character traits, Character Motivation, Character Struggle, Character Changes, and Character Relationships from the story.  
• We ended the day reading from The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich.  

Homework:

• GoMath 6.2 – Practice
• ELA Packet – Page 2
• Writing – Literary Essay on FLY AWAY HOME
• 3 paragraphs   (INTRO, OPINION, CONCLUSION)
• TOPIC IDEAS - Traits, Changes, relationships, struggles, motivation