ME / Learning from facing fears / Math / Music / Reading / Socials

Thank you for returning Signed forms... All but 3 students brought back their forms... one student was absent so we are very close to being the first class to bring in all their forms.  Thanks everyone

We began the day with ME.  M.E. is morning exercise and usually involves a writing exercise.  ME also stands for 'me' which is a place where the students ideas, personality, thoughts and feelings will show up in their daily writing. 

Today we read , Scaredy Squirrel sets out to make The Perfect Friend. And once he's spotted a perfectly safe candidate (with no teeth), Scaredy's ready. Armed with a name tag, mittens, a mirror and a lemon, he's prepared to make The Perfect First Impression. But just when every detail is under control, Scaredy's Action Plan takes a surprising — and "toothy" — turn. Will he survive this ordeal? Will he find his kindred spirit? Will he discover the true meaning of friendship?

The students had to retell the story in their own words and come up with the big message.  The message is basically if you face your fears good things can happen or Fear will hold you back in life.

Our Calvin and Hobbes for the day was Calvin pretending to be a dinosaur.

 After ME, we did addition of 4 numbers to show tricks in addition with basic facts.  The main idea was to group numbers for example adding 2 + 4 + 6 + 8 + 1 =   is hard if you add it in sequence.  So instead group the 6+4 and the 8+2 makes it 10 + 10 + 1 = 21  easy.  Students who are good at math do those tricks.  Students who are not comfortable with math do not know tricks.  Math is not hard...It can be complicated so the trick is to know how to make it easy.

The students had their first music period today with Mrs. Awalt.  She is an amazing music teacher and brings music to life in a fun way.  I am going to insist that All Students Join Choir.  Music is a gift and we are gifted to have Mrs. Awalt.

After lunch the students read silently for 25 minutes then did the title page for their reading log. After reading  the students will be given 5 or 10 minutes to report or respond to what they read.

After reading we filled in and designed a cover for the September Calendar.  Using and understanding calendars is a life and organizational skill to help with planning and time management We filled in important school dates and they could add in any of their information like birthdays etc