Fun in the dark!

OMG-we had a fun morning! The power went out around 8:30 this morning but we weren't going to let that stop us! It was actually kind of fun to hang out at school in the dark-it was like we were there after hours. (Which I am a lot and this was nothing like that, but for them, it was cool!) For the first hour or so, there were emergency lights in the bathrooms, however, we used a flashlight when those went off~that was fun. In Art, Mrs. Bowers had to bring it "old school" by drawing on the chalkboard instead of using the power point presentation she had made. We also used materials from our Ohio Energy Project--our hand crank flash lights and Mrs. Hider and I wore glow bracelets. It was almost like a party! :)

In meeting, we shared the which ethnicity of food is our favorite. (I get a lot of my meeting share ideas from my evenings at home. Last night we had Mexican food and I put a Chinese type recipe in the crock pot for dinner tonight.) Italian was a big favorite amongst the kids. Japanese was pretty popular too. Sushi, YUM! In The Beaded Moccasins, the Delaware boys of the village learned strength in a unique way~ask your kiddo about them jumping in the ice every morning of the 4 moons. We read independently and then finished working on our poetry understanding we began the previous day. We spent a lot of time on a shared writing today. We have been working with opinion writing and although they understand and can write a claim and come up with reasons to support this claim, we need work with elaborating on these reasons. We didn't finish so we'll pick up where we left off, tomorrow but did well today. I'm feeling much better about our checkpoint writing assessment this week. Unfortunately, it was once again indoor recess. :( In Math Workshop, we kept working on securing our fraction understanding and when secure, practicing and extending our fraction knowledge. We ended our day finishing our Infographics of Native American groups.