Today we spent some more time discussing the passing of a classmate's Mother. The student was at school today and helping out around the school. We spent some time reading and talking about Cancer. An excellent Picturebook,
Where's Mom's
Hair? was a good starting point. The story is Canadian and in chronicles the journey of a family who has to cope with a Mother who has Cancer and undergoes chemotherapy. The photos are wonderful and the story is written from the perspective of the young children.
The class had a double period of Library today to make up for the period they lost last week. They are continuing on their Book Talk assignments with Ms. Wills. Ms. Wills passed on a book that I am going to read to the class. It is called
The Last Lecture. I will provide some more details on it tomorrow.
After doing their cursive writing, we reviewed the answers to the questions to the
Occupy article. I had students volunteer their answers, to get multiple answers, and then I showed them the "correct" answer on the overhead projector.
After a frigid, but necessary afternoon break, we began to work on the actual quiz. There were a total of 9 questions, all similar to the questions they reviewed earlier, and I had them select 5 to answer. I put in guides/hints to direct their reading to the particular paragraphs where the information is to help them solve the questions. Some students are finished and others will require some more time to wrap it up.
Our thoughts are also with:
Who is making a wonderful recovery from surgery. The class is thinking of you!!
HOMEWORK: Have the new Lunch-forms signed.
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