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Math - We are now deep into long division! We need to learn map measuring skills to scale.
Our current read aloud is The Shadow Thieves by Anne Ursu, which I purchased at the Wild Rumpus children's book store on 2720 West Forty-Third Street near my home. It's an excellent bookstore!
Writing: Students will begin work on the literary essay. Literary essay gives students an opportunity to think critically about universal themes and ideas, to consider what is important to them and in life, and to communicate their thinking to others in a logical way. Along the way, students develop insights about people, the world, and themselves, getting to know all of them at a deeper level. They learn to honor their own thinking and that of others, talking, sharing, and writing, acknowledging their own developing perspectives, as well as those of others.
Reading mini lessons include text from Beauty and the Beast, discussing main idea and characters.
Social Studies: Students are working on Amazing Facts in U.S. History.
Today, students from the University of Minnesota came and we wrote Letters for Peace to Iraqi children.
I can be reached at: juliana.james@spps.org. My classroom phone number is: 651-293-8735. Updated November 13, 2009
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Daily Schedule
9:00 Opening/Breakfast
9:15 Attendance, Pledge
9:20 Math Block
10:30 Study Skills or Read Aloud
11:10 Recess
11:25 Lunch
12:00 Reader's Workshop
1:00 Writer's Workshop
2:00 Phy. Ed./ Science/Music
2:55 Planners
3:05 Social Studies/Skills Block
3:40 Dismissal
Art - Wednesday 1:10
to 1:50
Computer Friday 1:10 to 1:50
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