Our Whole Day

Today we had a class discussion to talk about the different ways that we choose books.  Some of these ways were:
* look at the back cover
* choose based on your level
* choosing randomly
* the title interests us
* the pictures appeal to us

In the afternoon, we then organized our classroom library into genre.  We had the following lables:  chapter books, non-fiction, fiction, mystery, sport fiction, sport non-fiction, biography, action and poetry.  We need to remember to keep our classroom library clean.  We have two classroom libraries:  one from the school and one that has Ms. Pike's own books.  We have to keep the spines of each of the books on the outside of the bin, we have to keep them in their correct bin (they go back where they were).

We did some problem solving on a patterning problem about caterpillars.  We found that there were seven different ways that we could have solved the problem.  Here is a picture of the different strategies that we used:

We had a good day!

Please don't forget to return all of your forms by tomorrow or else we can't have gym!!!!!!!!!!