Tuesday March 17, 2015

Spring fever has hit and we are doing our best to stay positive, focused and cued in on our goals.  Homework is becoming an issue.  It is extremely important to make sure you are attending each day with your "job at home" complete; you don't want to get fired!

In My Brother Sam is Dead, we wrapped up chapter 3 and found out that Sam was on his way back home to Redding.  I wonder what will be in store for Tim and the family next?!

In math, we jumped all the way back to unit one and looked at place value, exponents, and expanded notation/form.

In the afternoon, revisions continued to take precedent.  Tomorrow will be our final day of revisions, and we will soon begin our independent writing project.  I really enjoyed seeing students work together to reach a common goal on these writing pieces.  There are great examples of being teachers, leaders and learners each day through this unit.

We wrapped up our day with benchmark completion and a quick look at a story about a man who would never give up or take "no" for an answer.  Perseverance is powerful!

Homework

Math- Exponent/Expanded practice

Math Plus- 5.4

RELA- Frankweiler Ch. 4 questions only (NO vocabulary); Reading Olympics 150 pages by Friday

Vocab- "cede" sentences due Friday

Other- planner signed