It was a productive day today. I love those kind!
In reading, we read aloud from a new book: Day of Tears. Next, we discussed the upcoming unit on Story Elements. We will be going to a Day One, Day Two, etc. reading workshop format again. All students must have a book to read for class starting tomorrow. We will be working on the story element of setting to begin. Students will have the choice of Read to Self, Respond to Reading, Meet in a group, confer with an adult, or Partner Read. We will start this tomorrow. Students also took a pretest to determine how the groups will be assembled.
In science, we had one more day to work on our Adopt an Element project. These are due Monday for both classes. Students are to bring in a flat cube, final draft. We will assemble them in class.
Our next trip to Harold Martin will be Thursday, March 17.
