Day 81 - Team work

Today was a very rainy and wet Friday. We walked into class, our feet and hair very wet. Everyone grabbed their chairs from the stacked chair pile and went to their desk. We all started our daily math and then at 9:04 we went to the computer lab. In computer lab we did some more work on our “Chaos in the Canyon” project. We got into groups and then we all got into a row of computers and got our shop on!!! Most people went online and looked at the websites like, REI, Amazon, Wal-Mart, Target, and Cabela’s. Everyone worked very well together and cooperated together too. So everyone shopped around and found some good supplies for their team. At 9:50 we lined up and headed back to our classroom for math. We finished up the calendar math and then we got a math test to do. It was the summative for the “How likely is it?” We worked on the test up until break time.

At 11:00 we opened the wall and saw all of our friends. We had a birthday today and they had brought cupcakes for everyone. We ate the cupcakes once break was over. So once the wall was closed and we were sitting, two people passed out the cupcakes. They were really, really yummy!!! We continued to work on our math test, or at least the people who weren’t already done. Once everyone finished the test we went over it and corrected it. Mr. Steele wanted us to know why we had Monday off, so we watched a video on Martin Luther King. We didn’t have enough time to watch the whole thing before lunch so we stopped at certain point.

For recess today, we played our game for Friday. We didn’t play anything different because everyone liked the game from last time. So everyone had a good time playing the game and had really good team work. After the bell rang for lunch we all went to eat. Once lunch was over we went back to our classroom. When we got back we talked about how the game went and things we could do to change it or make it more fun. Then we finished the video. When the video was over we talked about a lot of things that relate to that. Then we got a writing assignment that related to the video almost. The prompt was:

If you could change one thing to make the world a better place, what would it be? Write a multiple paragraph letter to your teacher explain what you would change and why.

Everyone got started on the essay right away because we want to get as much done as possible. We worked on the essay until it was time to do jobs. So this was the end of our Friday.

Homework
Read 30 min
Shopping list for “Chaos in the Canyon”