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Math: Very cool stuff going on - we spent quite a bit of time working with line and bar graphs today. In fact, we watched a clip on a real life study of caribous and why they may have dropped in population from 1988-1992. Who knew that severe snows hampers the caribou's ability to escape predators - namely - the wolves! During the four year period, wolf numbers increased while the caribou numbers decreased!

Homework:

Everyone is to take the weather data and create a line graph depicting the average high temperatures for each month. In addition, as a challenge, they are to round the average precipitation for each month and create a bar graph. This may be a bit much for one night so please use your judgement...


Language Arts: We listened to a story while recording words that had this spelling cycle's sound - /er/. This began as a whole group activity but we switched to a more cooperative task to foster some additional accountability. The power of teammates!

Small groups:

The Cricket in Times Square

Read the next two chapters.
Began work on a vocabulary task that requires them to use a dictionary

Junie B. Jones

Discussed their descriptions of Junie B. after reading chapter one (last night's HW)
Read chapter aloud.
Pulled individuals to read Hermie the Hermit Crab

Ramona Quimby, Age 8

Read chapter 2


We visited the computer lab this afternoon and worked in Type-2-Learn. Some of the students lost their computer log-ins again so they worked on an additional RRJ task.

Social Studies: We watched a video about cities. Specifically, we looked at how cities operate from a transportation perspective.