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Monday, September 26: We had a guest teacher in the morning who reported our class was very cooperative and focused. Hurrah! In the afternoon, we learned a useful new vocabulary word: CAJOLE. We also practiced working on identifying character traits with supporting evidence from a text. We wrote “in role,” pretending we were the UN Peace Bell, writing a diary entry. A fun Monday afternoon.
Tuesday, September 27: We completed an anonymous reflection about our Well, Well, Well unit. In the afternoon, we worked on our new word sorts. We also read a new poem on the Literacy Cafe site, Is a Traffic Jam Delectable? We talked about words with multiple meanings. We also took an assessment where we identified a character’s main trait in a story and gave supporting evidence from the text. We finished up the day with reading stamina. Miss Jones helped us get our bots and our bot letters into envelopes to be delivered to some very important people at our school.
Wednesday, September 28: We went outside for a nature scavenger hunt. When we returned to class we built up our stamina by writing in our notebooks. A wonderful way to start Writer’s Wednesday. We did more work with groups of stamps in Math. If you have an 8 by 4 grid of postage they cost 2 cents each, how much will those stamps set you back? Our IU teachers read a book to us about different ideas about PEACE and we took sketch notes. We also learned about writing book blurbs that include a short summary, some opinion statements, and a recommendation to a specific reader.
Thursday, September 29: We looked at seascape pictures and guesstimated the length and width of various animals that live in a coral reef. Using Chloe the Clownfish as a model, we asked questions like, “If Chloe is 4 inches long, how long is the parrot fish? the tiger shark? the sea turtle? We also went searching for objects in our classroom that are 4 inches long. Often our estimates were super different than the real measurements. One 3rdLander guessed that Dr. H.’s ears were 4 inches long, but we cleared that up quickly, using a ruler to measure accurately. We learned about POURQUOI tales today. They are tales that tell WHY something is the way it is. We read a tale called How Rabbit Lost His Tail. We took a POINT OF VIEW assessment. We are learning about the difference between first person, second person and third person narrators. We ended the day by writing in our notebooks. Mr. Marshall came for a visit and remarked that our class was so focused! Hoorah!