Today we continued our culmination of the Storytelling theme in Open Court. Five more students shared stories today. Since many of the students who shared today tend to be quiet and shy I was particularly struck by how much courage it took to get up in front of everybody and tell and story with expression and feeling. We started the unit assessment also, taking the spelling section only today. Tomorrow we will do the vocabulary and reading comprehension sections and continuing with the folk and fairy tale presentations.
After recess, we worked on making bas relief plaques out of clay. We will use these as paper weights at Open House so things don't go flying it the day is windy. This project is a lot of fun for kids! I wish I could say it was a lot of fun for teachers, but it's not. I had one of those "What was I thinking?" moments as I was cutting up the clay and watching the desks get covered with a thin layer of gray dirt.... But the results will be worth it.
Homework: (1) Finish the math packet. It will be checked tomorrow. (2) Finish the rough draft of the "memorable event" story. This is the writing part of the OCR assessment. (3) Do the crossword puzzle. The words on this puzzle are the ones that will be tested on that section of the test tomorrow.
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