Roz

We began our day with our morning choice and i-time activities. Today was Art and then, in meeting, we shared something that people don't know about us and followed that by, "Just Like Me!" and the Pledge. In The Wild Robot, Roz, went looking for a goose to help her with her new gosling friend. She happened upon an old gray goose named, Loudwing. He was quite the character! We completed a padlet about experiencing emotions since robots don't have emotions-which is good because the animals still call her a monster. (Check out our padlet here: https://padlet.com/heather_lambrig/TheWildRobot) Mrs. Firestone came in for a lesson with using digital literacy responsibly. We discussed some of the features of Epic! and other online/digital literacy resources and how they can distract us and how we can "fix" those/our distractions. They did a wonderful job identifying the distractors AND coming up with solutions! Most of the solutions could be to "Press Pause" and "Get your mind right!" but we need a little extra self-discipline with digital learning as it's so easy to just click here and there. After reading independently, we moved on to Writer's Workshop where we came up with ideas for ways to SHOW a character's internal traits instead of telling our reading what the character is like. (They are so ready to begin writing but not yet!) After lunch and recess (have they shared about composting yet??) and quiet time, we completed a Number Talk and another 5 minute multiplication test where the majority of the class went up in the number of facts they completed correctly! Then, we looked at division with multiples of 10 and using base-10 blocks to help us with this understanding. We also spent some time on our differentiated factor, multiple, prime and composite dice activities. Finally, we ended our day with a fun website I happened upon called SwitchZoo where we made new animals with the perfect adaptations for our needs. (We related this to Roz and how she is adapting to her environment.)