Math: We visited the computer lab and explored a website that taught us about mean, median, mode, and range. At the site, we also had an opportunity to practice each of the concepts to help us prepare for tomorrow's quiz. These are 4th grade items but I expect everyone to do well on them. Tonight for homework, there are two different assignments coming home: line plot worksheet or a review packet. In addition, I asked all the students to visit the web site at home and complete the activity in the math journal that we began in class.

Language Arts: We generated and selected this cycle's spelling words based on the /ee/ using "ea." The list was generated with my help and through their small group instructional text. Remember, at least 5 tasks are to be completed by Friday, October 12th.

JGB: Discussed the interpretive question for tomorrow's group. They also provided their answer to the question prior to group tomorrow so they can reflect on their thinking after the group's discussion.

Roller Coaster Ride: Discussed the plot of the story and they need to describe the parts of the plot in their RRJs for tonight's homework.

Giraffe: We discussed the importance vocabulary words found in non fiction text. Tonight, they are to finish this task in their RRJs.

Overall, the focus of most my discussions revolves around putting "thoughts to paper." Too many times students are either answering questions using broad information or they are not including specific text support in their written responses. We will continue to work on this...

Social Studies: We blended some reading content with our economics unit using highlighters to signify important vocabulary terms. We practiced distinguishing between the definitions and the examples given in the text. For the purposes of our task, I wanted them to determine where the vocabulary was defined, rather than examples of the specific term.