January 4, 2017

Agenda:

Read 30 min

Homework: no math mystery this week, practice multiplication facts

What did we do today?

• At the start of the day, we worked on our first brainstretch of 2017 and we reviewed our math skills by working on a math assessment.
• In gym, we started our volleyball unit.  We played a game called Pass, where we had to bump the ball back to your partner against the wall.  If you let it bounce twice, your partner earned a letter.
• In math, we reviewed our addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills by playing ATTACK.
• After recess, we got a rubric to help us with our title pages for our new unit in science. We started writing what we already know in our KWHLAQ charts.(what you know, what I want to know, how am I going to find out, what I learned, what action will I take and what further questions do I have).
• In health, we wrote about our Topic Twistermeister moment.  We also watched the video Meet Doug.
• Today in music, Ms. Stephure introduced us to an instrument called the ukelele. She taught us different strings and how to play them.  We played the tune "Row, row row your boat" after.
• During Daily 5, Ms. Jones introduced us to another word work activity and went over her expectations for story beginnings.  They are action beginnings, using thoughts and feelings, exclamations and what the character might hear.  Then we worked on choice activities.  

Questions:
1. What was the most popular story starter chosen to revise in four new ways?
2. When will we play our first game in volleyball?
3. How many people will bring ukeleles to music?  What other songs will we play?