Math: We did our best to incorporate PE with math today - how many sit-ups can you do in 30 seconds? We then doubled their number (didn't want to tire them out!) and created a line plot. Many of the students completed this in class today, in addition to some analysis using our class data. However, those who didn't finish it should do so tonight. Additionally, we've reached a stand-still, curriculum speaking, with mean, median, mode, and range...Small groups have been dominated by these statistical concepts for the better part of 7 school days! So, for homework tonight, they should analyze three different data sets and demonstrate the "circle method" we have used in class - one circle for each piece of data - and equally distribute the "sum" until you run out and can't make equivalent sets. This will be on the quiz on Friday! Lastly, last night's line graph homework is coming home tonight for you to look over... although some of you "allegedly" looked it over last night but I was puzzled how incomplete some of them were...

Language Arts: We have just about wrapped up our literary sequence in whole group but will continue to work with these concepts in small groups.

Sachiko.... - We discussed various traits exhibited by the younger Sachiko throughout the story and began a follow-up activity where they chose the trait they felt was most representative of Sachiko and had to locate 3, specific details from the text and document them (with the page numbers) for tomorrow's response.

Why the Leopard... - Similar to the Sachiko group but we actually generated most of the evidence together. Tomorrow we will use this evidence to compose a group BCR.

Second Chance - We spent quite a bit of time examining the very first page in an effort to learn more about the main character's "character" prior to sharing yesterday's RRJ responses. The lesson they all should walk away with is that often times, the person who connects what appear to be unrelated parts of the story with a rather specific part of the text are the ones who are clearly understanding the development of the plot and character on a much deeper level. This is what we're after in 3rd grade.

In writing we had a mini-lesson on how to apply feedback we receive in our writer's notebook. It is my expectation that they apply this feedback appropriately, consistently, and immediately as we move forward. This is a learning skill on the report cards...speaking of which

Tonight is progress report night! Please review it, sign it, and have it returned tomorrow.