Wednesday, October 31, 2007

A Quiet Day

Halloween is one of the least productive days of the year in many schools, but our principal at Third Street has always actively discouraged celebrations here, and that's a policy that works pretty well for me. I really do not enjoy children on the verge of insulin shock acting as loud and silly as possible. So I decided to leave the dressing up and the celebration for home and street, and to focus on learning instead.

And learn we did! They are continuing to really apply their reading strategies in their independent reading. We made a new concept / question board for the new Dreams to Jobs unit. We worked on Writer's Workshop stories. We reviewed some of our previous work in History, and started on the last study sheets for the Native Californians unit. Test coming up soon!

After lunch, we had worked on a multiplication review sheet, and did some Science review. We're a little behind where I'd like to be in Science, so next week we'll be working hard to catch up. We went out to PE. Many students went to orchestra at this time. And we gave them a little time to get all the odds and ends done at the end of the day so they could have a free evening.

Home Studies: Just in case not everything was finished during class for tomorroow they need to have (1) the Multiplying Money worksheet, (2) page A 62 in the Science book, and (3) the three History papers.

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