To Tell the Truth

We did more word play for our morning Jumpstart!  Students are getting better and better at persisting for longer amounts of time in their word creation.  Today they used letter from Checkmate to build their lists.

We were back at it with our reader's theater practice today.  Teams practiced different "To Tell The Truth" scripts and presented them to the class.  We are focused on fluency and projection and also learned some interesting facts about Harriet Tubman, Lewis and Clark, and J.K. Rowling!  Students may select this format when creating a script of their own for our medieval times project later in the year.

We stayed with the game show theme and played a group round of Dunk Tank to kick off our volume measurement in math.  Students had some impressive background knowledge that will help us jump further into converting with customary units.

For our mindset moment, we referred back to our discussion of "The Dip" and looked at reflecting on mistakes as a helpful strategies for moving forward.  Students then submitted their ideas for activities we could do in class to help us practice overcoming the dip.

We made progress on our medieval times projects by wrapping up the fair or festival invitations we began last week as we studied castle life and celebrations.  This week we also began to look at the popular topic of knights, armor, and weapons.