We began our morning in small math groups, just like last Friday. Students stayed in the same groups but may have had a different teacher today. We have one more week of these groups and then we will re-evaluate and base our decisions on data that we collect for future groups.
In reading today, we read aloud The Crazy Man. This is such a powerful book that touches on prejudice. The discussion we're having is super. My lesson today focused on one aspect of reading class: Read to Self. We made a chart to delineate what students are doing during this time. After that, we modeled what Read to Self looks like and what it does NOT look like. Finally, we practiced for a 5 minute interval of time. It is my hope to build stamina with Read to Self over the course of the next week so that students can sustain 30 minutes of Read to Self behavior during the independent work time in reading class.
In science today, I had 6S and we worked on the computers for our graphs. I had them take notes on how they would be graded on these graphs. The final due date for both classes is Wednesday. Students need to have 3 separate graphs to pass in showing their data for the 3 activities that we completed in class about who we are as learners.
We ended the day with a school-wide assembly. Students will pick clubs that will start next week.
