Our Busy B's

The B day students worked hard today.  We started our day with an introduction to a Web 2.0 application Tagxedo.  As a part of our affective investigation to learn more about ourselves and our classmates, we spent some time reflecting on our interests, influences and personality traits.  We used our computer lab time to create an electronic word cloud that tells others about us.  These will also be on display at our Open House next Thursday, October 6th.  Although the students are anxious to share their work with you, you will have to wait until Open House.  To give you an idea of what a word cloud is, and to give you some more information about me, my personal word cloud is below.  I'm sure you will enjoy what your child created! 

After recess and lunch, the students were introduced to our Exploratory centers and had an opportunity to look through the choices and list their top three picks. Each student met with me to be sure their first choice center is a good fit for them.  They filled out their individual contracts and began working in their Exploratory area on the Knowledge level task.  Ask your child to tell you about their center work and a fact or two they learned about their topic.  


Next, the last few students completed typing their paragraph from last week.  Everyone was then introduced to/reviewed our procedures for using the TOPS Math Problem Solving Program.  We are focusing on finding the important information in the word problem and in the illustration.  We also discussed the key words that tell us if we need to add or subtract and ways we can show our thinking.


We had a busy day, but they got a lot done too.  Have a wonderful weekend!