This was a quiet and productive day. Students are continuing to do wonderful work in Independent Reading and I am really struck by their ability to use multiple strategies quite consciously to improve their comprehension. We finished reading "Food from the 'Hood" in the Open Court anthology. This is honestly a pretty boring informational article about students at Crenshaw High who started a successful business. Even though it is local and happened only about a decade ago, it might have 200 years ago in the middle of Zaire for all the kids care. One of the bad things about mandated curriculum is we cannot skip things which do not work in favor of things that do. Still, we made the best of it and used it as an opportunity to practice predicting, questioning, and connecting strategies. And we all sort of stayed awake....
After recess we went to the auditorium and worked with Mr. Lawton on music. The students are getting used to working with the Orff instruments, and they are making good progress with the composition assignment he has given them. I am anticipating that we will have a great performance for the parents on December 13th. I am not sure what the exact time will be yet. Save the date.
After lunch we corrected and discussed our homework. We also did our Writer's Workshop in the afternoon here. During this time we had a "lockdown" drill where the school is asked to practice the procedures we would use if there were an emergency like an armed intruder on campus. For us at Third Street, this sort of thing is not likely to happen. We did have to use the procedure once however when some hungry coyote wandered onto campus in search of some food or water. Poor thing!
Home Studies: (1) Do the Open Court pages including the "post-it note" page, the study questions, and the word search. (2) Read "Car Trouble" in StoryWorks, pp 16-21. Do the paragraph writing exercise, p 22 on a separate paper as directed. (3) Do the review pages in Math, pp 376-377. We will have a test tomorrow.
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