Friday Fun

When I was growing up I was definitely a rule follower.  I was very quiet and never questioned anything.  If my younger sister gave me directions or an order I followed even what she told me to do.  

This week we introduced some new things.  Limericks were just one of those new things.  I am so thankful for those students that questioned a little bit of the new that I was trying to introduce.  Some of them didn't question it but they were willing to break the mild ever so slightly to be an original.

Friday afternoon we spent time reviewing math skills with some games.  In our room we did Number Top-It.  It's a great way to review place value.   This time we played with hundreds, tens, and ones.  Later we will play it with decimal places (tenths, hundredths, and thousandths).

I am proud of my 4th graders for their anxiousness to try new things this week as well as to question the rules.  They were willing to take risks and because of that they achieved far more than I had imagined.

They are  a fabulous crew.

It was also a super mail day!   A new Scholastic Book Order arrived.  I'll be reading all that I can from these new books over the weekend so that the 4th graders can start reading them on Monday.

It's going to be a great week! How will you plan for your success?

Friday FUN!

Today was a great day!  We were busy and we didn't get any homework!  We took our spelling test in the computer lab ( a few issues today with computers acting strange....).  We also did XtraMath to practice our facts.

 We took our reading quiz over Stormalong and then had a few minutes for QRT (quiet reading time).

 By the afternoon we were ready for math facts with some multiplication war.

 A quick review of the multiplication methods taught this week.

We wrote our family journal letters.

Our day wasn't over yet!  We met on the carpet for some reading time with the fall athletes.

The final moments were spent getting autographs from the wonderful role models that visited Winskill this afternoon.

There's a home football game tonight so I hope to see you there.   Thanks for taking time to check out the pictures from our day!

Friday Funny

Humor is such an important quality.  I can't imagine what I would do if I weren't able to laugh A LOT.  Many times as  I reflect on things that have been said in my classroom I can only imagine what others might think but this conversation is too good not to share.

Let me set the stage just a bit:
   Indoor recess on the last day of summer school.
   Students were all talking about the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

Student A - My sister said she couldn't do the challenge last night because she was wearing makeup.  I am so glad I don't wear makeup.

Me - I am so glad that I do wear makeup.   You wouldn't want to see me without my makeup.

Student B-  Yep.  We'd see all your warts and stuff if you didn't wear makeup.

I don't think anyone knew what to say after that.  Good thing it was the end of recess and we were parting ways. :-)