Parent Reading Morning - The Cool Dudes!
This week, we had our first Parent Reading Morning! Thank you to all the parents that attended and volunteered to read with students. These mornings allow The Cool Dudes a chance to hear fluent reading and genuine enjoyment when reading books modeled by the adults in their lives. Thank you for being such great role models!
This week, The Cool Dudes brainstormed some choices that they make in their own lives to keep themselves healthy. They also reflected about choices that they make in their lives that are unhealthy options.
After brainstorming independently, we used the cooperative learning strategy of Give One, Get One to generate an even larger list. This also gave us a chance to hear about the choices of other students.
Today, the Cool Dudes practiced our critical thinking skills while conquering a really hard challenge!
You and your team must draw a smiley face on the whiteboard in the middle of the circle.
Your circle is filled with hot lava that you can't touch.
The circle walls are huge electric fences that you can't penetrate.
You have one roll of duct tape.
Maybe we can throw the marker?
Maybe we can direct it together?
Reaching in won't work! AHH! My arm!
Working with duct tape is a sticky situation - decisions must be made carefully!
And success! By working together and communicating clearly the movement of the marker, we were able to draw smiley faces on the whiteboard and problem solve effectively!
Today, students worked in groups of four to discover the writing process. Each student received a folder which they studied. The contents of their folders were secret and only viewed by that student.
After students understood their folders, they had to report and summarize the contents to their group. Based on these reports, the group put the four folders in order without looking at the contents.
In conclusion, The Cool Dudes created our own writing process and we have begun out first stories following these steps.
This week, we asked ourselves: "What makes a successful problem-solver?"
We came up with some guidelines for problem-solving this year!
As we start to set up our math notebooks, The Cool Dudes are focussing on using our notebook space wisely. If you need to show four strategies, make sure you have four spaces allotted for your work!
This week, we reviewed number lines and how we can use them with all four operations. We're off to a great start in Math in Room 2022!