Together for 8 days and establishing our routines, protocols, jobs, and 'how' we work in academics

This is our Reading Log. Three are to be completed per quarter. There are 15 spots to record the title of the book, the author, and the pages read. A parent signs off to verify that your child read for a sustained 40 minutes. This is part of homework every night-7 days a week. This is the best way to improve concentration. Making a habit to read each day builds stamina and focus and it keeps the student engaged in the book because the interact with it each day. The motto of 4th grade is to "work thoroughly, thoughtfully, and carefully each day". Reading is a huge part thathelps grow the skills required for learning. We share our stories and analyze what is happening. Whether your child reads The Wimpy Kid or the Narmia Series, comic books, or the newspaper, on a Kindle or in bed with a flashlight-- encourage them! Plus mode reading yourself. Let them see you reading a good book. 

  We are off to a good start. The class is learning the Morning Meeting format. Below is the activity from a Morning Meeting.  The 25 minutes at the beginning of the day is how we set the tone, pay attention to our goal for the week and share a moment before we get to math. The kids have been learning a lot about the right times to socialize and the right times to work.
Getting the Planners signed was the first goal and they are sharing our day---from the TBaA ( Think Back and About).

The kids learned 1 Potato, 2 Potato. It's one of the ways to choose up sides for a game. It was used in the Greeting for the Morning Meeting.

This Clarissssa, my 12 year old Ball Python and class pet. She has been checking the kids out and we passed around her last shed. I have been answering questions about how I take care of her.