Math and Power of Yet

Our day always truly begins after special. Today, in Fish In a Tree, we found out where Albert's bruises are coming from and learned why Shay dislikes Ally so much...funny story, actually! We also discussed how we are beginning to see the characters changing. Next, we wrote and shared our squiggle stories. These kiddos have such amazing imaginations and their writing has such voice. I had previously expressed to them that writing was their biggest weakness. After hearing from them, that statement was amended and putting pencil to paper is their biggest weakness and that they are so unwilling (I asked them what a nicer word than lazy was and this is what they decided) to write that it seems to be their biggest weakness. Hopefully, this will change!! Then, we continued as Scientists and worked with our paper airplanes. Afterward, we switched around for math and in 4th grade, we worked to review place and value of whole numbers with a QR code scavenger hunt-type-of-thing, in Mrs. Tanner's class, they worked on a "challenging" problem that they seemed to love and in Mrs. Kelly's class, they worked with finding mystery numbers.
After lunch, we shared our favorite winter activities in hopes that it would cool us down faster and then focused on the power of YET. We "read" Giraffes Can't Dance and then wrote down three things: something we are really good at, something we probably won't ever be able to do and then something that we just can't do YET. We shared these things and then watched a video about "Why Penguins Can't Fly" and discovered that their archaic ancestors could fly but they weren't very good and the reason they stopped flying is because they would rather swim! We ended with a Sesame Street video singing a little jingle about the Power of Yet! :)