Math: Estimating and Measuring using non-standard units

Today we estimated and measured using non-standard units. Students had questions #1-4 and reflect on page 317 to do for homework if it wasn't finished in class.

Personal Planning: Tobacco

We finished our plays today on how tobacco affects our ability to breath. Again, the students did quite well on this activity and worked well in their groups.

Drama: Fables

Today we finished up our fables and presented them. The students did a wonderful job and they worked together wonderfully, especially by integrating students who had missed the day when we started the fables.

Math: Place Value and Units

We have been talking a lot lately about place value, decimals and units of measurement. We have had many problems to solve with decimals and with changing units. There was no homework for math today.

Language Arts: Poetry and Letters

Tomorrow (Friday) we will be writing our good copies for our letters and our poems. If students have not given me a rough draft to look over, they MUST come with a rough draft on Friday. Those students who have missed the whole week will be given time to work on those on Friday. Today some of the students talked about similes and were given a small amount of homework. They were given 10 things and were asked to write a simile for each one. This was to be completed for Friday.

Socials: Sustainability

We discussed The Lorax today and how it relates to Socials. We then looked at the term "Sustainability" and what that means. I gave the students a definition and some criteria for what sustainability is. They were then to sort various sentences and phrases into three categories: Sustainability, Maybe Sustainability and Not Sustainability. This work was done in partners or in threes and was not homework.

Language Arts: Rough Copies

Today we had time to work on our rough copies for both our Limericks and our letters (to my sponsored child). Those must be done for tomorrow.