The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig is a story about a little boy who feels invisible. The little boy in the picture starts off looking all gray and "invisible" as we see his classmates ignore him and notice how lonely he looks at recess. Then a new kid joins his class and says hello to him and invites him to play. This new student starts to show kindness to our invisible boy and includes him. The invisible gradually shown with more and more color in the illustrations. We discuss how all it takes is one student to make someone else feel better! After reading the book, we talk about ways to be inclusive at Bowman! We created our own posters to help students be inclusive!
Students explored "What is a map? How can a map be useful?" by observing many different kinds of maps! We thought about what all maps have in common and when each map would be the most useful! This lesson is used at a starting point for our geography unit! Students participated in several challenging math tasks to begin thinking about how our brains learn math and how we can become better math thinkers! Each day we would explore a powerful math message about how are brains learn math then practice that "mindset" during challenging activities! For more information on how Math Learning and the Brain are connected please visit youcubed.org! How many rectangles can you build using 12 tiles? In Math Depth is More Important than Speed! How can we see numbers visually? Math Is Visual! Tic- Tac- No: Mistakes are Powerful! Shape Origami: Be a Flexible Thinker! How are shapes related?: Perseverance is the key! During writers' workshop, students helped me think about descriptive details I could add into my Small Moment story about seeing dolphins! We looked at the pictures and noticed details that I could add in to help my readers "picture" the story! The students LOVED seeing the dolphins and came up with great details for me to add!
Our first writing unit is Small Moment or Personal Narrative stories. Students focus in on "one time when..." and stretch it out as much as they can! Later in the unit, we'll learn how to add in little actions, thoughts and dialogue! Right now we are focusing on picking out the Just Right size story! To help students do this thinking- we use a watermelon! The big watermelon is your BIG idea "My Summer Vacation" and the slice could be a trip you took or a place you visited. Both are TOOOO BIG for a SMALL moment story- we want the SEED idea! We want that one, tiny, little seed for our stories.
Today students began exploring different math stations for our workshop. We thought about what each station felt like and looked like. We practiced partner math activities and independent math activities!
Students are practicing building their independent reading stamina! Look at us go! "I have 10 colored pencils. Some are red. Some are blue. What possible combinations could I have? List all the possibilities! These types of problems encourage students to practice their combinations to 10. We used square tiles to concretely exchanging and trade in "colored pencils" to build our understanding of how the part- part combinations relate to the whole!
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