Why did the chicken cross the playground?
   
To get to the other slide. 

 Here’s the scoop on Room 240 today…

After Independent Literacy time and Morning Meeting (and realizing that it is the 81st day of first grade – time flies!!), we had Reader’s Workshop.  We skipped our Author Study for the day, because Morning Meeting took longer than planned – two kids with newly lost teeth, and some good math figuring out how much longer until the 100th day of school.  The kids had independent reading time, buddy reading time, as well as time to write in their Reader Response Journals.

We then had a song (Down by the Bay again, with only aquatic animals in the verses).  Then we went on to Writer’s Workshop – we worked on original stories again, with the kids expanding on the Reader Questions from yesterday.

After lunch and recess, we came back up to the room for Read Aloud, which today was Pickles to Pittsburgh, the sequel to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.  Then it was back down to the gym for more snowshoeing and cross-country skiing.

After that tiring but very fun expedition, we spent a bit of time organizing our classroom – making sure that all of the reading, writing, math, and science materials are all in the proper places so that they are easy to find.  Then we had math workshop – we worked on subtraction and addition sentences with the numbers missing in various places (e.g. ____+ 3 = 10, 7 + ___ = 8, and 5 + 5 =_____). 

We then moved on to Science Lab, and some of the kids got to go out in the hallway and learn about how long various species of sharks are, while the rest watched a short film about sharks, and took notes in their notebooks about facts from the movie – both to learn about sharks, and to start to think about research as well.

After all of that, it was time to pack up and head home.