Tuesday - Back in Action!

I hope everyone had a great three day weekend and that you took time to remember not just Martin Luther King, but all the people around the world who fought, and continue to fight, for equal rights and freedom for all.

1st - Dance with Mr. Nunez.  I will say that when I picked the students up, only two students (both boys) were not on stage dancing due to behavior.  The students are learning a new dance and I took a video to show the steps.  I might try and post it later!

2nd - We started a new class novel "The Indian in the Cupboard" by Lynne Reid Banks.  We read the first chapter "Birthday Presents" and then the students wrote a summary in their reading journal that was supposed to talk about the characters and setting and major events of the chapter.  After writing, they had 20 minutes of D.E.A.R time while I conferenced with students (#1-#7).

3rd - ReadyGen Lesson 2b.11.  We started a new text today called Northwest Coast Peoples from our Text Collection.  This is a non-fiction text that describes the life of the Native Americans in the coastal areas between Oregon and Alaska.  The kids are already starting to make comparisons between these Native Americans and the ones talked about in Hiawatha and The Birchbark House. The focus today was making sure they understood main idea by looking at key ideas and details.  

4th - It took half of 4th period to finish our ReadyGen lesson because reading Non-fiction text is always more difficult and you need to read even closer than normal.  The information that is important can be hidden in any of the text, captions, pictures, etc.   The second half of 4th period and all of 5th was spent reviewing for the chapter 4 math test.  We went over the homework from the weekend and made sure that each question was understood and that students felt prepared for the test.  We ended the lesson by looking at 5 questions that were from the upcoming test - word for word - but the numbers were changed.  We made sure that the question was understood, the process to solve was understood, and we solved it.   When they got to the test, they use the same exact technique, just with different numbers.

6th - Lunch

7th - Chapter 4 test in math.  I read each question to the class and made sure that they knew exactly what the test was asking them to do.  They had time to work each question.  Students still don't know their multiplication facts so how well they actually do isn't based on do they know how to divide, but have they learned their multiplication and division facts.  MAKE SURE THEY ARE PRACTICING NIGHTLY!!! 

Homework

• Writing:
• Write a paragraph giving your opinion about which visual most enhanced written information in “Northwest Coast Peoples.”
• Reading:
• Must have IR Book done by FRIDAY
• Math:
• Division Practice Sheet Kumon #6 (BOTH SIDES)