Book Fair

Morning Work
I loved the worksheet that we used for morning work this morning. It showed how multiplication turns into division. I would love to used the worksheet in my own classroom. I think that is very important to teach students that division is just reversed multiplication.

Book Fair
This book fair has so many great books that are less that $5. The selection was huge! I thought it was great that every student in my class got a free book that can cost up to $6.99. Some of my students got spy pens. I talked to one student who I felt would get into trouble with his spy pen, he almost made it through the entire day without getting into trouble. Another student bought a few spy pens. I saw a blue light shining off of one of the plastic carts so I told him to put it up. Later, the teacher had to take away one for the rest of the day. The next day, the carpet around the student turned blue while half of the lights were off. I went up to him and had him hand me the pen, which I put into his drawer. I also saw a lot of students trying to shine these lights into each other's eyes, so I told them about how that was bad for their eyes. In my future classroom, I will have my students put any toys from the book fair into their backpacks as soon as they return from book fair.

Main Idea Pretest
I proctored a pretest for three students. Later, two students came out to finish their tests. The teacher had instructed all of the students to use the question to answer in complete sentences. I noticed that these five students had trouble with remembering to use the question stems.

Skipping Morning Meeting
We had to skip morning meeting today. Two students noticed and told me about it. These students really do care about their morning/afternoon hugs and their morning meeting, they always let me know if one of them gets skipped.

Epic
I was surprised that Epic.com is free for educators, but not for everyone. I love that it reads books to students.