Thursday

This morning the students did their DOL and then started their Genre paper.  I have changed this. As I looked through the Common Core requirements I wanted to make certain the students can summarize their material.  So we are now writing a short summary, similar to what is expected for their homework, they also write how the material affects them and then they must compare and contrast the story with another story they have read.  After this we did our vocabulary words.

In math we are talking about decimal fractions.  Students seem to be understanding this quite well.  In social studies we learned about  the homesteaders coming to Idaho.  Tomorrow, if the weather lives up to its promise, we will go to the cemetery to learn what we can from that.  It is really an interesting expedition.