Buddies

Our day began with more than 1/2 of the kiddos heading down to kindergarten, first and second grade. We are introducing another choice for morning work next week: Leadership. So, I asked K-2 teachers if they needed any leaders and the answer was a resounding, "Yes!" I asked our kiddos and 20 of them volunteered! So, next week, they will begin going down to their buddies and helping them/mentoring them! I don't know who is more excited~the teachers, the 4th graders or their buddies... :)

In morning meeting, we shared our least favorite chore to do at home and played a few rounds of "Would You Rather?" In Wonder, Miranda shared her perspective. At first, we wondered why one of Via's friends, that she doesn't really talk to anymore was a section in the book, but after reading, it was clear that Auggie (and Via) has just another person in his corner. We read independently, visited the library and/or conferenced with me and then, continuing with our main idea/supporting details of informational text learning, we read an article on Newsela and commented on a post in Kidblog stating main idea and supporting details. (If you follow your child's blog, you can read and see how your kiddo did.) This took a lot longer than I had planned so we worked up until it was time for lunch. After lunch, recess and quiet time when we took our M4T assessment, we did a Number Talk (mental math strategies for solving basic operations) on subtraction with adding up and then completed a fun and yummy math lesson on representing multiplication. Hopefully, your child's made it home to share with you. We ended our day reviewing maps and globes and looking at Google Earth to secure our understanding of continents, oceans, our country, latitude and longitude.