“It was the best of times; it was the worst of time” famously began Dickens’s Tale of Two Cities. For us in room 19, it was the quietest of days, and it was the noisiest of days. Both were good.
We did a number of quiet things today. We read our independent reading books. We checked and discussed homework. We did some review sheets about homophones which are often confused like its and it’s. We corrected yesterday’s math test. And we took another history tests.
But the afternoon was gloriously chaotic. We started our art unit on form today. And we started creating forms using clay. Oh, did they have fun here!
And some of the creations were, well, quite creative! Students were only told that they needed to create a form which would be interesting from all angles and would have at least one hole which went all the way through the object. They came up with a surprising variety of ways to meet this challenge.
The cleanup took forever, of course, but it was still worth it.
Homework: Again, pretty light. I know you’re disappointed in me. (1) Do spelling sentences. (2) Do “Prime and Composite Numbers,” Math, pages 298-301.
Some students are still finishing the frequently confused words worksheets. Those will be correct and discussed tomorrow.
2 comments:
You know, not me but, one of the kids did a Gromit. It actually was pretty good. I'm sure Wallace would be proud of the mini-sized statue of Gromit. Maybe also offended the kid did not do HIM.
Stewart, next step: stop motion animation! Since there are now clay figures, you could teach your friends how to do that! I am so proud of you!
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