Monday: We read about a young designer who not only has launched her own clothing line, but has also started an anti-bullying program. We made multi-flow maps to highlight the problems and solutions mentioned in the article. We also watched Amanda Gorman read her Inauguration poem. Then we partnered with classmates to read poems together, aiming for expressive fluency. We made a FOURS chart using pictures of horses. 2 horses have 8 legs. 7 horses have 28 legs. How many legs do 10 horses have? 20 horses? We are working to connect multiplication with division. During our Power of Song unit, we learned more about the Lotus Blossoms program. We listened to some of the Lotus Blossom performers and took some notes together. We ended the day with a scavenger hunt for apostrophes. We found MANY apostrophes in contractions, but not so many in possessive nouns. We’ll try again tomorrow.
Tuesday: We read about an organization that’s making corridors for elephants, so they can move safely and stay out of farms and towns in India. We made a multi-flow map to represent the problem and the solution discussed in the article. We learned about the art of Andy Warhol with Ms. Schuler. We used tiles to represent division problems in Math. We ended the day by working on our Lotus Festival posters.
Wednesday: Today we read about Cesar Chavez and made multi-flow maps about the ways he helped farmworkers. In the afternoon we wrote our own division problems and represented our problems using tile arrays. We reviewed our work with apostrophes. Then we made monsters in our writing notebooks.
Friday: It was great to be back in action in Thirdland today. We reviewed our Cesar Chavez Multi-Flow map assessments. We also did some word work and talked about the suffix -OR. We illustrated the words: collector, editor, investigator and circumnavigator. We skimmed through Time for Kids to find the article we think is most important. We also worked on some division problems and wrote sentences with possessive nouns with apostrophes. Our day was jam-packed.