Day 3

Wednesday May 11, 2011

We started off the day with indoor recess because the play ground was all wet, the boys had the option to go to any of the classroom in the third grade. Most stayed and we played a variety of games like Connect 4, I played Guess Who with one of the boys. Then we had morning meeting and went on to classes. In language class today we started off with reading a book about night and looked at all of the different similes and personification that the author used to describe the different things that happen as night comes to a neighborhood. After the story the boys worked on wrighting their own similes about their paintings of night, first as a group and then on their own papers. For RAVE-O today we finished Blueberries for Sal and then introduced a new rhyme pattern -one, and made the words cone and bone with it. We also discussed the different interesting meaning for the word cone, their are 4 of them: ice cream cone, traffic cone, pine cone and the cone in your eye. Then came snack witch was the usual chaos of lots of boys from other classes that congregate in Mrs. Fitzpatrick’s classroom each day. After snack was tutoring witch is a lot of repetition from day to day to get the one boy that stays in the classroon to remember his spelling rules. Next was math, witch all the boys had to stay for due to MCAST testing. For the first part of math we played logic games in different stations. After that the boys that usually leave the class for Math went to the computer lab to work on things there and the rest of the class worked on division word problems, witch can be a struggle some times. After lunch we went to Art down at the other end of the building. The boys worked on making newspaper and masking take animals that they will paint. I can remember doing this project when I was in 4th grade at Carroll and still have it sitting on my shelf at home! From Art we went back to the classroom for History. We did an introduction to colonial farming and talked about our up coming field trip where we will spend 1/2 the day at a local farm and the other 1/2 of the day at the Wilkins house doing different farming activities. After History we went to Bounders, my all time favorite class when I was a Carroll student! I got to see Mrs. Z one of my Bounder instructors and we cooked hot dogs over a camp stove, from Bounders the boys headed home and now I am waiting in Valerie s Classroom while she is in a meeting. Today is the first day that I have internet while at Carroll I just got set up with a visitors account to get onto the wireless!