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Friday, September 28, 2018
Welcome, pahdners to the Buckaroo Book Barn Book Tasting Event!
We had so much fun in Room 24 today with our wild west-themed book exploration event!
Each cowboy, cowgirl (or outlaw!) was given a "menu" with four books to sample.
They made a few quick notes while they looked through the books. They filled in information about each book such as the title, author and genre.
They also took time to read the first page or part of the...
Thursday, September 27, 2018
I had to snap this picture today because I just LOVE the way this class works together!
This is a great example of two students conferring about a math problem. As I sat and watched, I saw a very polite, kind discussion about how they each solved the problem and then pointers from one to the other on where he went wrong. It was FANTASTIC!! Way to go, boys...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
We put in our class book order today and so we drew our first FREE BOOK WINNER from all the reading coupons that students entered in to our raffle. MIA was our first winner today and chose a great new book for her own personal library!!
We are so excited for Mia!
Her new book will arrive next week with all the book orders!!
Thanks to all the orders this month, we were able to order three new books for our classroom, too!!
(New...
Monday, September 24, 2018
We have been CARTOGRAPHERS this past week, working on putting our map skills to the test!
We had to follow directions VERY carefully and make our maps according to those directions!
Today we spent time with fellow cartographers to see how our map skills measured up!
We found there were some differences in our imaginary islands, so we had kind, thoughtful discussions about what caused those differences.
We also celebrated...
Sunday, September 16, 2018
We start our day with a check of our planners. A student has the "responsi-BUG-ity" of checking to see that planners are signed. That student uses the iPad to give Dojo points to students who have a parent signature on his/her planner!
After planners are checked and put away, students are ready to put their listening, spelling, handwriting and grammar skills to practice each day. A sentence is read (and repeated) and the...
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