Even with the short week we are squeezing a lot of extraordinary things in! Just ask your child the meaning of the word extraordinary. We completed a Frayer model for the word extraordinary. The Frayer model is a type of concept map in which you really dissect a word. The activity helped us to understand what the word means and even further, what it does not. We did a little more work on our David Shannon’s A Bad Case of the Stripes webquest. This was a lot of fun. We made predictions, analyzed characters and their characteristics, and even watched a few video interviews with David Shannon. To introduce into maps and distance we looked up wher David Shannon lives and typed it into MapQuest to see how far he lives from us in miles, how long it would take to drive there, and just to even begin to understand how big the world is around us.
We have been working on learning the punctuation rap which can be found on the National Punctuation Day website. Each one of the kids sang the part of a particular punctuation mark. Be sure to ask your child what they were in the song!
We are working on three digit addition and to set ourselves up for success the kids created color coded columns before starting the Singapore math activity. The kids really enjoyed this and since it showcased several levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (creating, analyzing, applying and understanding) so did I!
Today we reviewed time telling with Time Telling Bingo! To differentiate some students were given the bingo card that I read from and some used Judy clocks to self-check. They really enjoyed this and there was very little frustration for such a fast paced activity!
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