January 28, 2013

I was here late last night and forgot to post this.  I came in this morning and noticed the computer still on, guess I was tried.  we had a fantastic day got through all the lessons, but was too busy at the end of the day.  We had Cafe reading and we got to meet in groups to discuss our book and we had a blast learning how to read poetry.  We learned the use of a line break helps us by giving the reader time to think about the poem.  Then we read poems with our buddies and even discussed mental pictures poems help create.  Then we began our new writing unit poetry.  We are looking at poems through the eyes of a poet.  We discussed how we as a writer need to use our mentor writers, published authors to help guide our writing.  The first topic of discussion was to explore how to come up with a big idea.  We need to look at the big idea through the eyes of a poet and come up a new look on it.  Then we began our unit on 2 digit addition and explore the algorithm or rules to follow for solving addition problems.  We got out our Base ten blocks to model our strategies.  Then we closed our day with spelling, we are studying plurals.  We will look at them deeper next week.