Hello Everyone,
*We have a student teacher who has joined us for the next 3 weeks! Welcome Ms. Shirr!
We started with a "Problem of the Day" today!
"Isabella likes to line up her shoes in her closet. She has 5 pairs of shoes in all. Her ballet slippers are between her sandals and hiking books. Her soccer cleats are between her ballet slippers and hiking boots, which are between her sneakers and soccer cleats. How does Isabella have her shoes lined up? Draw a picture and explain your reasoning."
Ms. Russell read us another chapter of "The Breadwinner" today. We discussed some aspects of Parvana's life that shocked us. Like the fact that she isn't allowed to go to school because she is a girl.
In math we spent more time on multiplication facts. We looked at patterns and strategies to help us solve some of the more difficult ones. For example: doubling, solving a fact you know and adding or subtracting to solve for the one you don't, counting by 2's, 3's, 5's, 10's and using our fingers.
In gym today we played "4 corners" and had a volleyball game.
We started a new read-aloud book today, "The Tale of Despereaux" by Kate Dicamillo.
In social studies we looked at the rights of children with regards to education. "Every child no matter gender, race, religion, family income or home's location has the right to a good education" yet over 124 million and counting children are not attending school around the world. Today we looked at some of the reasons for this and then wrote some questions we have in our journals.
We had library today too!
*Yearbook order forms came home today.
Have a great afternoon,
Ms. Russell
