Friday!

Happy Friday! This was our first FULL week back to school together! Whew! I'm tired! :)

Today was a great Review Day!

We started off the day by reviewing how to write a formal letter. The students then wrote letters to me about how their 4th grade year is going so far and anything else they wanted to tell me. I'm so excited to read them!

We also went over and I modeled how our Writing Groups will be held between the kids when we begin editing each other's pieces and publishing pieces.  The kids did a great job with this helping to set up guidelines and then modeling it very nicely within their groups.

Next, we had SS for almost 2 hours! I had planned LOTS to get to, but our Internet was a bit slow on the mini-laptops, so we ended up doing the lesson on the SmartBoard. I love having this! It was a Landforms Webquest. I was very excited to see how wonderfully the kids navigated through the internet, could follow the webquest directions carefully, and able to write down the answers to the questions. This is going to make it much easier to do WebQuests in the future! :)  We did not get to our other SS items planned, so we've pushed that until next week!

Some of us got to enjoy Lunch Bunch today! It was great. The kids deserved it!

Next we met up with our 2nd grade Book Buddies from Mrs. Watts' class.  Her kids are working on their fluency skills so it was their job to read to my kids.  Next, my kids asked their buddies questions about the book so that they both could take an AR test and score a perfect 100! {Remember, the AR Goals are in the planners}

We then took time to have SSR where the kids could silently read and take AR tests while I pulled each kid back individually to discuss MAP scores from 3rd grade and set new goals for this Fall MAP test! We will be taking the MAP Reading on Tuesday of next week!

No HW this weekend!
Have a great one!