Inferring Picture Prompts

Writing

• I am a little surprised that so many of my students actually enjoy writing. 
• The students were a little confused about the picture prompts today, but they eventually understood them. I was surprised by how serious the students were with their inferences of what was happening in the pictures. I was fairly creative with my goat story and I was inspired by the girl falling through the ceiling. I am going to have another inference picture prompt on Tuesday. The students accidentally saw the top of that prompt and were excited to see a dinosaur. I wonder what they will think when they see the gummy bears coming out of the sink. Creating these prompts sheets was fairly easy. 

Math

• Students actually said that butterfly math is fun. It didn't take long for an absent student to catch on to butterfly math. One of my students who did not understand butterfly math yesterday got excited and said, "Oh! Now I get it!" today. All 6 of the students in my group said that they feel good about comparing fractions.
• My teacher wants me to use more academic language. I am good about using common denominator, but I forget to say quotient and product. 
• Tomorrow we are going to show the students how to use multiples to create common denominators. 

Reading

• Inferring Stems anchor chart. The students pointed out a word that could be added to the chart. I hope that the chart helps them create inferences. Some of the phrases were a little over their heads. I arranged the colors on the chart well. 
• I should have used David Gets in Trouble yesterday and Miss Nelson is Missing today. 

Fun Friday Prep

• We decided to bend the rules because so many students did not qualify for fun Friday. Students will miss 5 minutes for each late item and 10 minutes for each missing item. 
• On Monday, we discussed assigning practice work to students who did not qualify for fun Friday. While we created the list of students who did not qualify for Fun Friday today, I decided to create missing/incomplete work packets to help students raise their grades. When we grade, each assignment is worth 2 points. The student loses one point for late or incomplete work and two points for missing work. If the students have to work on worksheets (etc) during fun Friday anyway, they might as well raise their grades. My teacher supports this idea. I stayed after school making sure that there were enough copies for students who did not turn in their work. When I got home, I double checked that all of the work which had been turned in was checked in. Then, I separated the work according to which student owes the work.