Finally Friday!

We made it through our first full week! We also managed to do a little learning too! Our day began with setting ourselves up for success and getting Ready to Learn. At the end of special, we had our first fire drill and then went to the ILZ (Innovative Learning Zone) for our first guest speaker! Mary Kennedy, the Hilliard Education Association president, talked to the students about the history and origins of Labor Day and the beginning and purpose of unions. Next, since we are problem solvers, we brainstormed issues and problems we see in our school, community, state, world, etc. as well as possible solutions to these problems. What problem did your kiddo discover and who did they work with today?

We only had about 15 minutes of academic block time which we used to decorate and personalize our writer's notebooks. In math, 4th graders worked on our next pretest: multiplication and division. We'll be organizing the students into groups and start working next week. We also worked with patterns and had our first tears of the year... like I mentioned at Curriculum Night, I'd rather have tears in 4th grade than college! We worked through our frustrations with not understanding challenging problems, and learned more than just the math. :)

In meeting, we shared something good from this week and played a game called alibi. We also worked on our organization by writing in our "planners." Students are either getting organized on paper or digitally using the calendar app, notes or reminders. Have them show you what they are using.

After lunch and recess, we watched Flocabulary's Week-in-Rap and finished up our 'More than Smart' presentations. Ask them about this!