Day 8

Today started off as always with language where Mrs. Fitzpatrick read the boys a story about Dawn and then the they water colored pictures of dawn and sun rise. Next was RAVE-O where we started off finishing Sam the Minuteman and then split into the same groups as yesterday and worked on Ran Charts and timed reads of the Minute story about the Cape Cod Fishing Date, witch I pretty much have memorized at this point. Their was no tutoring today because the tutors are busy doing evaluations of students so the boys all stayed in the classroom today and they finished there paintings of dawn and then came and sat down and listened while I read Strega Nona, a story book about a magic pasta pot. Then we did a group brain storm about the pictures and then the boys did their own brain storms based specifically on their painting. Then it was time for math, we started off playing a game of mastermind and then did a lesson on fractions using fraction pieces that I spent a very long time cutting out yesterday. Lunch was pretty normal and then they went out to recess. After lunch was Art where they continued to work on their newspaper creatures. Most kids have their structures done and are now working on cover them with colored pulp that they made(with help) from ripped up construction paper and water in the blender. Then we had history where the boys drew pictures of different parts of the farm. They had to judge what they were suppose to draw based off of a short paragraph they had to read and some did very well with it where others struggled. The boys ended the day with bounders.