Welcome back everyone! I hope everyone has had a fresh and happy start to the New Year!!

We kicked off the New Year with Centers this morning. We have a few things to wrap up with the questioning strategy and will continue with this for a few weeks.

After recess, we continued with the Partial Product strategy we started with in December. The students remembered quite a bit of it!! Yahoo!! The students also worked to sharpen their multiplication tables by playing multiplication war with each other, as well as working on the blog games.

We also completed "Graphitti Words" before lunch. Students had 30 seconds to write down what came to their minds when they saw a variety of different words. We will continue with the word choice trait throughout the month of January.

After lunch, the students completed a "Stretch Your Word" activity where they had to take a noun and describe it two ways to "stretch" its' description. We also worked on a short paragraph to add or change existing words to more exciting word choice.

The day wrapped up with Read Aloud and a quick visualization activity.