Lunch with Lambright!

So, I opened my door to students during lunch time and today was another packed house! I enjoy chatting while eating and I feel that the kiddos feel more relaxed and can talk about other things than school. I even had students from other classes ask if they could come in and eat in the room today...the more the merrier! :)

In our academic block, we finished our read aloud, Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus. It was a really good book and we were able to see clearly how characters change over time through thoughts, words, actions and feelings. We then had time to continue our work on characterization of a character from a book we are reading independently. We also have a blog post to complete listing 20 things _____, inspired by Aven that made 3 different blog posts: 20 things that are cool about not having arms, 20 things that are not cool about not having arms and 20 supplies to survive middle school. (Unfortunately, we are having trouble with kidblog so they are to do this in Google Docs for now and we'll copy and paste it in when it's back.)

In math, we continued our work with our favorite number presentations. I'm very impressed that they listened to my spiel yesterday about pushing themselves and thinking outside of the box. One person is doing a lego stop motion video, someone is making a book, another couple are making iMovies... :)

In meeting, after writing our assignments down in our class planner and our personal "planners," we shared our favorite Disney characters followed by a game of "Who Am I?" where they had a Disney character taped to their back and could only ask each other yes or no questions to try and guess who they were. It was so much fun!! After lunch and recess today-complete with a snocone reward from the cookie dough fundraiser, we spent a little bit more time on our creations using legos, blocks, lincoln logs, dominoes, construction paper, cardboard... We also packed up a little early and headed out to watch Mrs. Tanner get a pie in the face!