Math: Most of the class should complete their classwork today on page 171. A small group spent quite a bit of time today working on a rather challenging multiplication matrix, if you will, that involved a tremendous amount of problem solving. This group should complete #3 of the challenge side and all of the problem solving side.
Language Arts:
Wildfires - We are almost finished with or partner summaries from the end of last week. This has been a daunting, yet completely appropriate, task that should drive home the point of writing in your own words.
Fair Day, U.S.A. - After considerable time and energy spent building up to the comparison/contrasting paragraph, we took what was expected to be the final step towards completing this task. However, based on my individual and group conferences, it was blatantly apparent that we ave a considerable amount of work to do with regard to meeting the demands of the prompt/question. When asked if they reread their work prior to my conference, most said no. Then, after walking away, guess who was quick to come back having "reread" their work...uh-huh... you got it! Well, the short of it is this...
- "IF you actually reread your written work to evaluate if you met the demands of the prompt/question, AND you didn't see any need to make a single change (even grammatically, spelling, punctuation) then I have serious concerns as to your efforts in rechecking your thinking."
- As for "meeting the demands of the question," this means that you have considered EVERY aspect of the prompt/question and adequately explained your response as it relates to the intent.
Most didn't even use their Venn Diagram as a tool to help them compose their paragraph even though the prompt began, "Using your Venn Diagram..." In most of their RRJs you can see my feedback for this task. I expect this to be redone if noted (I suspect you will too!).
The Highway Turtles - We began reading a new book today that we will use to investigate a magazine about rivers later in the week.
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