Surviving

No, it wasn’t that bad a day. In fact, it was a very nice day. “Surviving” is just the next theme in Open Court Reading. And so we will bid adieu to Mystery to Medicine, and as of tomorrow, start a new Concept-Question board. So I put up this picture of the one we just completed just for those of you who have not had a chance to be in the classroom lately.

We did a lot of the usual things today. We did our Independent Reading. We went over Friday’s homework. We started the contributions for the next Concept-Question board. We reviewed the first story. I said “reviewed” here because we already read this selection from Island of the Blue Dolphins when we read the entire novel. So students worked in partners to re-read it and to find some connections and questions.

We partially corrected the History test from Thursday. (I will have to grade the essay and short answer parts myself). We practiced the songs from Gold Dust or Bust. The students are starting to sound pretty good here! We went out to PE.

Many students spent a lot of time in the auditorium today for Orchestra. They even had a concert for the kindergartners in the afternoon. So, the remaining students had a chance to get a head start on the homework, and many may already be done.

Homework:  (1) Write a short story about surviving a plane crash. This should be one page handwritten, not skipping lines. It can be longer. For those who are eager to practice their typing skills, it can be one page, double-spaced, 12 point font. Stewart said I had to put all those details in. (2) Do the math chapter reviews, pages 394-395.