Shayan is student of the week!

We started our day with our Special, Phys. Ed. After Phys. Ed. we completed our morning work and went to morning meeting. During our greeting we stated something that we were thankful for this year. Next, Shayan presented his student of the week poster. After that we read our poem for the cycle, Popcorn! After morning meeting we corrected our sentences for the day and headed out to recess. Following recess, Mrs. Miller read more of The Doll People to us. Mrs. Miller then asked us to review what we learned about popcorn. We created popcorn mosaics and recorded a fact about popcorn. It was then time for lunch. After lunch we worked in Writer's Workshop. We continued to work on nonfiction writing and write in our journals. Three more students presented their pumpkin stories. After writing it was time for Math. Today we worked on expanded form of 2-digit numbers. We used representations of 2-digit numbers to name the place and value of the digits. At the end of the day we took a closer look at popcorn. We watched a short video of a popcorn kernel popping in slow motion and we discussed how we thought a popcorn kernel "popped." We did some research on the internet and found out how it actually pops. (Ask me how!) Next, we popped 100 kernels of popcorn stored at room temperature, 100 kernels kept in the refrigerator, 100 kernels soaked in water and 100 kernels dried in the oven. We counted the number of kernels that fully popped. Tomorrow we will use our senses to describe the popped kernels from each type of kernel. There are some real differences! We will record our observations and make some conclusions. Our homework tonight is math - place value. Tomorrow is Day 4. We have Music.