Monday
am work Chromodoku – It’s sudoku but with color.
Logic – Big Pumpkins
Gifted Kids Survival Guide – Perfection Infection – Who’s afflicted and what they can do about it.
BrainPop on Poetry – we wrote 2 couplets in the pattern aabb with 4 beats per line.
Such as…HumptyDumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, All the kings horses and all the kings men couldn’t put Humpty together again.
Students used StoryKit to illustrate, take photos, record their poems.
Read aloud – The Quiltmakers Gift It is about being selfless and not materialistic.
Math
Presentations of Couplets
Tuesday
Chromodoku
Logic – Save the Children
Couplets such as Humpty Dumpty (above) Students wrote, edited, checked for the correct number of beats per line, and correct rhymes…All of this while still trying to make their poems make sense. Then they published them to iPods/iPads on Story Kit.
Read Aloud – Dog in Boots.
BrainPop Jr. Poems
Math
Presentation of Poems.
Wednesday
morning work. Chromodoku or other Challenging Puzzlers.
Logic – The Bake Sale – It was a tough one!
Library
Silent Reading
GKSG – Perfection Infection pg 60
Sonnets – 14 lines to declare you love, complicate things (metaphor),
create conflict or twist things up & resolve.
LUNCH
RECESS
ReadAloud – The Quiltmaker’s Gift
Color Quilt Piece in the snail’s trail or follow the leader pattern
Math – Don’t be so negative! Adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers, decimals, & fractions. Really, these kids are AMAZING.
Geography – Stack the States or Countries (if you dare)
