Up-cycling

Our day began as all do... we continued working with word study as our focus for morning choice followed by i-time. Most are playing games but at least they are creating words and collaborating with friends with Boggle and Scrabble! After gym, in our morning meeting, we continued our work with empathy and the book we read yesterday, Ada's Violin, by watching videos of the real Ada. This sparked our interest and we are going to up-cycle something. So, if your kiddo starts going through your recycling, this is why! In Reader's Workshop, we worked with idioms. Maybe you can find a way to throw one or two in to conversation with your kiddo and see if they pick it up! Here are some we worked with today: let sleeping dogs lie, clam up, when pigs fly, smell a rat... After matching idioms with their meanings, they were able to continue free-writing and adding poems to our poeTREE. It was lunch and outdoor recess and quiet time where we completed and went over our M4T. After our Number Talk (see if your child can tell you 16 x 8), we related decimals to our base-10 number system and blocks where they made pictures and then determined the value of their picture and we ended Math Workshop with an exit slip. Math took quite a while today so we didn't have much time for Social Studies but we did begin to discuss the Explorers and the 3 G's that brought them to the Americas.