Our Wednesday morning was packed full of writing! After our school assembly, we discussed how pieces of writing always have a Beginning/Middle/End. Students choose a topic from their Seed Idea topics. We then drew a picture for the beginning, the middle, and the end of our stories. Students then took it one step further and broke the middle picture down into 3 more seperate pictures. These quick sketches helped us to get our pieces organized. Students then wrote their first draft of their stories using these pictures as their guideline.
Take a look at what some of the students put together as part of organizing their stories...
(click on the pictures to make then bigger)

After lunch, we completed Math Pods. Students worked with me to review their practice tests that they completed yesterday. Students practiced their division facts using the games on the blog. With Mrs. Lippai students continued to work with estimation. She assigned students the following questions (you can use either strategy to solve).

We have to move our Math test to Friday as tomorrow is early dismissal.

We finished up the day in Phys Ed and with our Read Aloud.