Just tell us...

Again, today, the kiddos just wanted me to tell them the information. Two even said, "I'm just being lazy." Yes, you are! For example, in Science today, they were asked about conductors and insulators so I told them to look on page 20 of their energy books. They continued to ask for what those words meant and then admitted that they were just being lazy. It made for a pretty stressful afternoon. I'm doing my best and it's not the easy way...it's actually pretty painful to watch so many kids struggle to figure something out when you could just quickly tell them the answer.

Today in Word Study, we sorted our words to discover the pattern. Some kids are working with past tense words (add ed, double the consonant and add ed), some are working with the vowel consonant e or silent e pattern that makes the vowel long and others were working on derivations of words (words that are similar but spelled and sound differently.) After gym, Mrs. Hider asked us about something we are thankful for and then we added some chains to our empathy/kindness chain of things we've personally done that are kind today and then we played Coseeki. In The Beaded Moccasins, Mary finally arrived at Sequin's and found that he and Mrs. Stewart were now married and she was going to have a baby and name it Samuel or Samantha! We also heard similes, metaphors, hyperbole's and alliteration when reading today. After spending some time reading independently, we worked with idioms, proverbs and adages. Can your kiddo share any of this with you? We even had some fun illustrating the literal meaning of some of these. It was indoor recess again and we are getting a bit stir crazy... After quiet time, we had a race to match decimals with their word forms and fractional forms before moving on to Trashcan Basketball! We through wads of recycled paper into the bin 10 times and represented our successes with fractions and decimals and then collected 9 other student's information to represent out of 100. In Science, we are going to be creating a dwelling for penguins and are trying to figure out what type of materials will keep a penguin cold. So, we melted ice cubes on metal and plastic spoons and hypothesized which types of materials we could use to keep a can of soda cold.