After we met in our Discovery Groups today, we finalized all of our Mother's Day projects. I sent home your book to you so you could work on it. Just don't let Mom get a peek!

I shared with the students the rubrics for our National Parks today. You can find the rubric specific to note-taking here and the rubric for your blog entries here. I also talked to them about the importance of writing articles that are interesting, but not hokey...full of information, but not list-like...and I mentioned that we must figure out how to connect ideas. See below for a little help:

After we spent time with Mr. Shane in the lab, we completed a math lesson. I'd post the power point below, but all the animations wouldn't work that way. We basically talked about how to share lots and lots of money. It involved breaking $100 bills into $20 bills...and $20 bills into $10 bills...and $10 bills into fives...you get the point. We completed page 222 in our math journals using fake bills. The children loved the Benjamins!

During rotation today, we had fun baking cookies for our Mother's Day tea tomorrow. Seatwork included finishing the advertisement for the Roald Dahl invention you started (Wonka Candy). I sent home the rubric and directions with your brother.

I hope you feel better soon! We miss you!
:)Mrs. Neal