Well, I never did get a chance to update the Friday blog entry. Sorry if this caused any confusion, particularly because I dropped one of the homework assignments at the last minute.
Anyhow, one of the nifty things we did on Friday was some art. Students were asked to imagine what life – plant or animal – might look like on some other world. This was part of our look at “informal balance” in art work. Some of the results do indeed show informal balance, but also a lot of creativity, don’t you think?
Today was a pretty quiet day. We did reading, and we went through our Open Court folders to organize them and find out what might be missing. We went to Tech Center. This is not our usual day, but we changed with room 17 because they’re on a field trip. After recess we worked on contributions to the Concept/Question board and our Writer’s Workshop stories. After lunch, I read part of a chapter of By the Great Horn Spoon! We watched part of a PBS documentary on Ishi, the last Yahi Indian. We went out and did about 30 minutes of physical education. We came back, checked, corrected, and discuss math, and I gave them their homework.
They will have a substitute tomorrow as I will be gone to a completely unnecessary math textbook training. Mrs. Mayra Gassman, who taught at this school with distinction for more years than I can count, will be taking good care of them.
Homework: (1) Do the Unit Four spelling jumble. (2) Do “Relate Formulas and Rules,” Math, pages 506-509. (3) Do “Find a Pattern,” Math, pages 510-511.
3 comments:
Ha ha! "... completely unnecessary math textbook training." I love how you tell it like it is!
It's shocking how much money they're wasting on this. Subs cost about 185 dollars a day. Multiply that times all the elementary school teachers in Local District 3. Yikes! PLUS, they are renting space from Pepperdine in Culver City. How many full-time positions could have been saved with that money?
And why exactly do we have to have a new mathematics textbook anyhow? Why not just have replacement copies for those we have when they wear out. It's not like there have been any new discoveries in elementary mathematics. Nobody's discovered a new integer in between 6 and 7.
Oh, ye of little faith!
Didn't you hear that a magic spell has been cast on these special math textbooks? And only enchanted textbooks can raise the district's test scores.
Speaking of magic, guess what? I just found the fountain of youth! Mr. Bassett, one gulp, and you and I can be ... 4th GRADERS AGAIN!!! You just gotta believe!
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