1/2 day

I was out this morning for a Rheumatologist appointment so Mrs. Canary was in for me. They seemed to like her and everything seemed to go swimmingly! They had meeting and shared the crayon color they would be and played a few rounds of "Would you rather?" Then, she read, Who is Melvin Bubble?, and then discussed how they would describe themselves and how others might describe them. They worked on writing their informational reports (I've shown examples but some are looking at me and needing some assistance so tomorrow we'll conference and I'll help clarify anything necessary), the kidblog post about Counting by 7's, Language of the Discipline with 3 words about their historical setting/time period and then read or visited the library. In Social Studies, the 5th graders continued working on their board games about landforms and the 4th graders finished their Galimoto toy designs and played them at recess~this was a big hit!
I was back for Math and 4th graders were introduced to the metric system with a couple videos about "Metric Man" and some explanation by Bill Nye. After a little discussion, we measured things! 5th grader kiddos worked with fractions and problem-solving. After lunch and recess, we finished our day with our financial literacy learning. Some even post-tested today. We'll finish this up tomorrow.