Inferences

We really need to work on our inferencing. We can make pretty good inferences, usually, however, today, we read a Chris Van Allsburg book, The Stranger, and really struggled to find the "hidden" meaning. Even after I gave them hints for where to look for textual evidence, they still went a little too 'creatively out there' with their thinking. We are going to continue to read books by Chris Van Allsburg and hopefully, they'll begin to understand his writing style and the subtle hints he leaves that need inferencing.

After special, in meeting, we shared one thing we are looking forward to this weekend and then played, "Guess my number," where they had to guess the number I was thinking of using only yes or no questions. They did really well! After read aloud, they worked on their informational report (many are still not finished), Counting by 7's kidblog post, Language of the Discipline and read. Next, 5th graders had their first, "Sci-Fri" (Science Friday) and played a sort of brain bowl game while 4th graders moved on to Science with the Ohio Energy Project. In Math, 4th grade had the Metric Olympics! and 5th grade wrote and solved fraction word problems. Our day concluded with finishing up financial literacy via $martpath. They enjoyed this so much that many completed multiple grade levels of understanding!