We started the day with our temperature graphs and our Journal. Today we talked about having opinions and learning to take a side and support it. The question I asked students to answer was in response to what Dr. Spence our director had on twitter. Should we pay underpriveliged students to get good grades? I am looking for a topic sentence that states an opinion and some reasons to support your answer.
Afterwards we did our math activities. The students have a good sense of rounding and are enjoying the activities that Ms. Jean created. We looked at our new Math Word Wall, and added some new words and definitions to our Math Dictionaries.
After lunch we worked on our letters to our penpals. Ms. Jean and I editted the letters and many are doing the good copy and are hoping to send them to Korea on Friday. Once the students had their fill of letter writing we moved onto our Literacy activities. We then read another chapter from Matilda. After recess, we watched a Bill Nye video on the water cycle. After creating our own diagrams and watching the video, we should all uderstand, evaporation, condensation and precipitation.
I set up the Smartboard today, and am eager to get the class using it and hopefully engage them more and inspire more use of technology.
HOMEWORK: Journal: Complete the opinion paragraph.
Spelling Lesson 10. Rhyming words.
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