MidWeek in Room 401

Wednesday was quite the busy day....

• 1st - Science with Ms. Galan
• 2nd - Class Novel - Chapter 6 - " A Queer Noise in the Night" of The Boxcar Children.   This chapter explained how living in the boxcar is actually a possibility since Henry has found work.  The children enjoy food and milk and the new things in the boxcar before falling asleep.  In the middle of the night Watch wakes up and growls as he looks outside.  Henry and Jessie decide to close the door of the boxcar.  Eventually Watch calms down and they all fall back to sleep.  The mystery of what was outside is still not solved!
• 3rd - Math Field Test - The kids all got different questions to try and answer.  These will be POSSIBLE questions on upcoming state math tests.  
• 4th - ReadyGen 4A.18.  The focus of the lesson today was that readers can use the text to analyze and understand the parts of a narrative.  I modeled how to fill out a 3 column chart organizers.  The first column was "characters", the second column was "setting", and the last column was for "main events".   I modeled using our new class novel The Boxcar Children.   After the kids watched and copied my example, they were tasked to do the same with either the novel Lunch Money, or the short stories "Max Malone Makes a Million" or "Coyote School News".  They were allowed to work independently or in pairs.  
• 5th - GoMath Review - 12.10  - The kids worked on two worksheets involving using mixed measures and converting using mixed measures.  These skills are not overtly difficult, but you have to know your conversion charts, and you must add or subtract correctly, and just like adding or subtracting - you have to borrow and regroup correctly.  What they didn't finish in class, they had to finish for homework.
• 6th - Lunch/Recess - Thankfully it was a nice day and we got to go outside finally!
• 7th - Math Wrap-Up and then Social Studies we decided to watch "Liberty's Kids" episode in which George Washington takes charge of the colonial army.  They showed the date and the kids noticed that this episode took them up to March 1776 and they all got so excited... it is almost time for independence!  

Homework:

Reading - Read Independent Book for AR Test

Math - Finish two handouts on mix measures