Great start to the week!

In Language, today the students listened to a Read Aloud called The Librarian of Basra.

  We discussed how the characters might be feeling in this story and we talked about why it is a good example of a 'Recount' text.  In reading, we will be focusing on Making Connections while we read.  In writing, we will be focusing on Recount writing.  Please take a look at the 'Homework' tab and check out our 1st set of WWWs this week.  Our word wall words are linked nicely to our study of Recount writing.  Also, here is a link to a video read aloud of our story today. The Librarian of Basra (Read Aloud)

In Math, the students came up with reasons why we might have Open Number Lines.  We also came up with some of our own!  We created number lines that skipped by 5s, 10s and 100s and we also created some that didn't start at 0 or 1.  In addition, the students thought about some questions such as, How many groups of 25 make 100?  How many groups of 10 make 100?  How many groups of 100s make 1000?  How can these questions be linked with coins and counting money?  A lot of great wonderings today!   Our new starter activity that we tried today is called "The Answer Is...".  I gave the students the answer '42' and they each had to come up with a question on their post-it.  We had so many great questions!!

Today was also our first Gym day!  We had a great time playing Shark Attack:).