Week02

These are plans for the whole week. The same themes will come up day after day. If I need to bring up something new on Wednesday based on what happens Tuesday, I'll list it separately under Day 8.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Etymology of journal: like soup du jour, it means DAY. In your journal, you will keep track of an entire day, and what you do that day. Whenever you start doing a different activity, you see what time it is, and you write down what you're doing. This will be easy when we're all doing the same thing. You will carry the journal with you everywhere.
 * __Student Journals__**

__**Challenges**__ Please to see almost everyone engaged in their activity the whole time. Anything hard to understand about your activity that you want to tell others about? How have you extended your activity? Quick talk about switching partners.

Before everyone starts writing, have students bring writing notebooks to the rug. Discuss: (Suggestions, if students don't come up with many:
 * __Writing__**
 * Is anyone trying anything different with their writing notebooks?
 * Use a blank page to keep a list of writing goals. To make a writing goal, go through the things you've been writing, and think: "How would I want to publish this information, and share it with the world?" What are some ways that authors publish information? Where do you see text?
 * 1) book
 * 2) magazine
 * 3) bulletin board
 * 4) newspaper
 * 5) webpage
 * 6) letter
 * 7) mural

Throughout the week, I will be having conferences, in alphabetical order by last name. By the time I get to you, I'd like you to think of a writing goal; with the first two or three people I might help you come up with a writing goal.
 * This week, we will also start keeping an up-to-date table of contents in our notebooks. Go back to each day that you've written something, and write the date and title as neatly as you can in the table of contents of your notebook.

Number Lines model vs Bar Model vs Array model After achieving goal, the "13+" students will be encouraged to set goals involving fraction facts, using decomposition and the distributive property. Small group tasks: create rhythm/rap for multiples, will be more complex than the rhythm for 5's.
 * __Math__**

__**Science**__ Compile research and experimental questions, groups choose which ones to work on. Compare observations with inferences about moon. Design cardstock sundial - Set up schedules to check these every hour of the day. One person takes them home each day (along with chalk) to check them for 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8... and again 6am, 7am, 8am.

Focus on relationships, whether among characters (fiction) or life forms or origami modules (nonfiction) using webs.
 * __Reading__**