Week 29 is stormin' in...

WEEKLY OVERARCHING TOPIC (social studies):  

What's a "hero" or "heroic act"?

WEEKLY WORDS/VOCAB:

perserverance

obstacles

endure

overwhelming

ordinary

MATH:

A continuation of multi-step real life problems (directly from the smarter balance practice test), in this we have been approaching both basic operation skills, logical inference, critical thinking, patterns, charting, and all sorts of fun math stuff.  We typically dissect the problems together, with the expectation that each student writes notes down, and attempts a part of the problem.  It's been going great!

Wow, the weather has us inside and full of energy!  Things are going well today.  We had a long presentation of the weekend from the kids.  

We than had an excellent group.  We role played various "emotional" words.  The students had to charade the words and/or describe a scenario.  It was difficult but inspiring to see the students do this.  It brought up some deeper feelings and we also had some fun laughs.  

Some of the emotion vocabulary that we acted and came up were:

scared

angry

abandoned

left-out

jealous

envious

disappointed 

overwhelmed (this was a very difficult one to guess)

devastated

ignored

unimportant

This allowed us to address emotions that students struggle with and smom that are present in the classroom.

OUR AFTERNOON WILL INCLUDE:

Silent reading

A read aloud, that focuses on biographical stories.  We will have a brainstorming poster activity focused on our weekly topic, a short educational video.