Teaching elementary school was once famously compared to trying to keep 30 corks under water at the same time. Not every day is like that, of course, but some days can be. Today the students knew that they were going to be spending the last hour of the day playing on the yard while teachers had release time, and that simple change of schedule seemed to create enough excitement that it was hard for them to think of anything else!
Despite this, we got some good work done. We will be starting on the "Surviving" unit in Open Court next week, and we "frontloaded" this by writing and illustrating stories of personal survival. These were quite varied. Some survived fires; others natural disasters; and one or two wrote about surviving their fourth grade teachers. You have to take these in good humor.... We also went to the library and corrected our homework. We discussed the different types of rocks, reading a chapter from the Science book, and we also talked about the Celsius system and negative numbers generally. At 1:30, the corks popped out the door and the teacher breathed a sigh of relief.
Home Studies: (1) Make a tree map of the three different types of rocks. List at least five facts for each type including how each one is formed. (2) Do "Celsius," Math, pages 440-441. (3) Do "Negative Numbers," Math, pages 442-445.
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