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Friday, January 24, 2014

Today Savannah is updating the blog!

Today when we walked in we could do a Free Day Friday choice because it was Free Day Friday. After we did that we did Writer's Workshop. After Writer's Workshop we went to the library and we got all different sorts of books. I got three books. One is The Great Fuzz Frenzy and One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue fish, and Junie B. Jones Alohahaha. After that we came back and got to read our new books. Then we went to lunch. I got Dominos for lunch. After that we went to the classroom because of had indoor recess. Some of us played hangman and some of us played legos. After that recess was over we did Daily 5. After Daily 5 we went to P.E. Then Miss Greteman told us we had a Mystery Reader. Then she read us the clues. Then we all were guessing and Michael went down to the office to get his dad. Then we started packing up. THE END!

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

My name is Josh. I'm the updater today.

When I walked in everybody was working and putting their binders up on the shelf. We were writing in our journals and we went on the carpet for morning meeting.

For math we were trying to make both sides of a equation the same. It's called balancing an equation. Then Miss Greteman told us to put in our mailboxes. Then we got started on Writer's Workshop.

In Writer's Workshop we looked at our collection and decided which one is the best.

Then we went to lunch. We ate chicken nuggets, ravioli, and bringers. I was a chicken nugget. We ate our lunch, we lined up to go to recess, and we came inside our room. Me, Elizabeth, and George played legos together. We made a humongous robot. It fell down so it wasn't that fun anymore.

Then we had Daily 5. We had groups. After that, we picked our choices for Daily 5.

Then we went to P.E. It was fun! We played with balloons. We kicked the balloons. Then we lined up to go back to our classroom and we had our snack. Miss Greteman read us Junie. B.

Then we went on the carpet and watched a video about how things move. Then we read our Time for Kids magazine.

Then Miss Greteman called our numbers and we came up and put our Time for Kids in our mailboxes.

Then we had an afternoon meeting. Since we have a short week we will not have new spelling words. Then we got off the carpet and started packing up. Miss Greteman asked us to work on something from our desk while we packed up. I got out my Martin Luther King Jr. packet.

Then Miss Greteman called me to write the blog and that's it!

Being a FAIR JUDGE!

We have officially started our OPINION WRITING unit! Today we are judging our collections to choose the best. We know that we cannot just say, "this is the best." We have to tell WHY it is the best. This means we need to judge each piece from our collection. 
How To Judge Fairly:
1. Put my collection in a line
2. Compare the same thing (eyes, fur, tail, ears, etc.)
3. Choose the best and give REASONS (tell WHY)

Monday, January 13, 2014

Sydney is the blog updater today!

We did math. We did fact families and centers.

We did Writer's Workshop. We wrote seed stories about things we did over Winter Break.

We had lunch. We had recess. We had outside recess.

We did Daily 5. Miss Greteman had groups. We did centers.

We went to Art. We made bracelets.

We had snack. Miss Greteman read a book. She read Junie B. Jones.

In spelling we practiced Bossy R words.

Then we did our Winter Packet.