Monday, February 8, 2010
Reported by Angela

In the morning we did our normal Morning Business. From our other blogs, you probably know what that is. But just in case, Morning Business is when we write down homework and check our boxes. Then Mr. Coley went over the homework with us on the whiteboard.

During States and Capitals, Mr. Coley introduced our new States for the week. Two of the States for this week are: Salt Lake City, Utah, and Austin, Texas. We wrote down our new States and Capitals on our flashcards. When I was done, I went through this week and last weeks flashcards, studied, and waited for everyone else to be done.

Following States and Capitals, room 34 did Writing. Mr. Coley said, “Today we will learn how to Respond to Literature using the book Where the Red Fern Grows.” We described Billy as a caring, loving, curious, brave, determined, eager boy. After, we wrote down 20 words that described Billy, and chose three, independently. I chose: determined, loving, and eager. Afterwards, Mr. Coley handed out a Graphic Organizer to each of us. That is how we Responded to Literature.

Briefly after, we got out our awesome The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe book, opened it, and went over what happened last chapter. What we did today was have Mr. Coley read to us, we usually silent read. My sentence is, “ The children, stuffed from a delicious meal, wanted to meet  King Aslan, a lion, at the Stone Table, but Edmund snuck out of Mr. and Mrs. Beaver’s house to see the White Witch, so they got their shoes on, packed up, and  left before the mean White Witch could catch them.”

Then, we did our Colony Creation. The name of our colony is Colwaii. Mr. Coley told us to get into our groups. So my group walked over to my table, and Drew got ready to write, and Maddy and I got ready to draw.  Drew finished writing today, so now we have to type it up. The group I am in almost finished with the drawing part. We got a lot done today. Then, it was time to go to recess. So I got out my math book, got out my planner, and headed out for recess.

During math, I sat down next to Kiya and Andre. Ms. Ramos, my math teacher, wrote on the board,” 2-sided review [with partner] and study for test tomorrow.” My partner was Kiya. Kiya and I finished the two-sided review early, so we got to start on our homework early! It was page 227, numbers 1-33, odds only. Finally, we corrected our two-sided review. Out of #1-25 + an optional bonus question, I got 20 right plus the bonus! Then, it was 12:50, time for lunch.

Once we got back from lunch, we had 10 minutes until the bell rang. It was a great day! Thank you for reading my article about February 8, 2010.

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