Day 3 with no Smart Board.... two laptops at each group worked quite well once the program was loaded. We'll try that again.

Literacy
Great job reading with your group. I'm looking forward to reading all the different messages. Green questions are easy to ask and answer. Yellow questions are similar to green questions The answer is still somewhere in the text but you need to think about it. Red questions include those asking for your opinion... why do you think? The message of the story is a red question. I think it was a little soon to test yellow and red questions. We will brainstorm some yellow and red questions and post them in the classroom to help.


Read some fun facts about gorillas:
http://www.ducksters.com/animals/gorilla.php

Math
Everyone had a good grasp on how to compare and order numbers. The harder part was explaining why one number was larger than another. Remember our sentence starters....

I looked at the _____________ place and saw that __________ was greater than ___________ so _________ is the greater number.

If we had to compare 17 894 and 17900:

I looked at the ten thousand and thousand places and saw that they were the same, so looked at the hundreds place. 9 hundreds are greater than 8 hundreds so 17 900 is greater than 17 894.

Extra Practice:
Grade 4 - http://www.math4.nelson.com/quizzes/math4quizzes/m4ch2l3.htm
Grade 5 - http://math5.nelson.com/quizzes/math5quizzes/gr5_ch2_les4.htm

Grade 4 tests signed and next steps completed.

Physical Education
All groups had their groove on today. Nice dancing! How many movements do you see below?



Reminders:

• Music tomorrow
• Field trip permission form and money
• IT IS NOT OFF UNIFORM TOMORROW
• Toy Drive