9/1/11 we started the day by gluing our decorated puzzle pieces to a big piece of p aper. I'm going to hang it in our classroom this afternoon! We all are important members or "pieces" of our classroom community. After that, we switched for math for the first time! Students are bringing home a letter with them today to let you know who their math teacher will be for this year. In my math class, we did some community building activities to help get to know each other better and to learn each other's names. For the rest of class we worked on a math inventory so I can see what math skills/concepts each student already has/knows. We will finish this up tomorrow and will review our classroom rules. Once the students got back from math we had our mid-morning snack break. Everyone said they had a good time in math class. After our snack break, we talked about what the MAP-R is, why students take it, and how to take it. Then we went to the computer lab to take the assessment. The Measures of Academic Progress in Reading (MAP-R) is a formative assessment that all students in Grades 3, 4, and 5 take on the computer to measure reading progress. It is given in the fall, in the winter, and in the spring so we can monitor how each student is improving in reading throughout the year. In writing, we did an activator called Round Robin Writing in our table groups. The purpose of this activity is to have the students participate and work together as a table to write a creative story sentence by sentence. Each table was given a piece of chart paper with the following story starter at the top,"It was a normal day at recess. The sun was shining brightly and everyone was running around playing. But then I looked off into the distance and saw....." One person at each table group finished that sentence and then passed the marker to the next person at their table group who wrote the next sentence. This continued on around and around the table group with each person only writing one sentence before passing on the marker. We had a lot of fun! Some of the topics from the stories include: monsters, flying pigs, zombies, fairies, giant pickles, clowns, and finding a million dollars which is then eaten by a bunny. Such creative ideas! Later
9/1/11 we started the day by gluing our decorated puzzle pieces to a big piece of p aper. I'm going to hang it in our classroom this afternoon! We all are important members or "pieces" of our classroom community. After that, we switched for math for the first time! Students are bringing home a letter with them today to let you know who their math teacher will be for this year. In my math class, we did some community building activities to help get to know each other better and to learn each other's names. For the rest of class we worked on a math inventory so I can see what math skills/concepts each student already has/knows. We will finish this up tomorrow and will review our classroom rules. Once the students got back from math we had our mid-morning snack break. Everyone said they had a good time in math class. After our snack break, we talked about what the MAP-R is, why students take it, and how to take it. Then we went to the computer lab to take the assessment. The Measures of Academic Progress in Reading (MAP-R) is a formative assessment that all students in Grades 3, 4, and 5 take on the computer to measure reading progress. It is given in the fall, in the winter, and in the spring so we can monitor how each student is improving in reading throughout the year. In writing, we did an activator called Round Robin Writing in our table groups. The purpose of this activity is to have the students participate and work together as a table to write a creative story sentence by sentence. Each table was given a piece of chart paper with the following story starter at the top,"It was a normal day at recess. The sun was shining brightly and everyone was running around playing. But then I looked off into the distance and saw....." One person at each table group finished that sentence and then passed the marker to the next person at their table group who wrote the next sentence. This continued on around and around the table group with each person only writing one sentence before passing on the marker. We had a lot of fun! Some of the topics from the stories include: monsters, flying pigs, zombies, fairies, giant pickles, clowns, and finding a million dollars which is then eaten by a bunny. Such creative ideas! Later
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