🎶...manic Monday...🎶

🎶It's just another manic Monday...🎶 I'm aging myself but this song comes to mind today...

We got new morning choices for this week and learned of a new opportunity for morning choice--leadership. This is one that kiddos are able to sign up for, so, did your kiddo? After gym, in our meeting, we shared a little about our weekend and then played "Popl," a counting game before saying the Pledge. After adding marbles to our kindness jar, we read Wonder and more from Justin's point of view. Justin really enjoys being around Via's family and their overprotectiveness and loads of love and really wishes he had that at his own home. Then, we learned about our new challenge for the year. Have your children show you their ___ "book" challenge on Canvas. Their work is housed on their ipad but they can give you the general idea of the challenge. We read independently, visited the library or conferenced with me and read the Infographic in StoryWorks before moving on to Writer's Workshop. Today, we discussed small moments and how the small moments that happen in our lives can lead to amazing stories. We read, Fireflies! as a mentor text and read how R.J. Palacio used a small moment as inspiration for writing Wonder. We brainstormed some of our own small moments as inspiration. After lunch, recess and some quiet time, some students that worked on researching Roman Numerals last week, shared their creations. Then, came the chaos of Math Workshop. Robby didn't think it was chaos--which is good that it didn't seem chaotic--but when you have 30 kids doing 5 different things at the same time, it feels chaotic to me! It will get better. Some took the Unit 1 post-test, some took the Unit 2 pre-test, some practiced subtraction, others were working on independent math... Finally, we completed our day with what I thought would be a Maps and Globes review but ended up having to teach what country we live in and what it looks like on a map! We'll work more with this tomorrow!