Friday, January 4th, 2019

In literacy, we went back to revisit a very useful and valuable thing:  comparing and contrasting differing points of view.  Students will eventually take a stance on a given issue, research, and then respectfully debate.  What we worked on today was looking at a conflict in a story that I am either currently reading aloud or have already read aloud before.  They then got into small groups, reflected back, and then chose a conflict between two characters.  Each student, while working in a group, filled out this graphic organizer individually.  What is shown immediately below this are the examples I used from each class:

For JA Biztown, I was able to distribute a copy of the workbook to each student.  The pages used in the workbook will also be used for social studies grades.  So today was more about housekeeping as I passed around Sharpie markers so the students can write their names on their books.  I also received the checkbooks but those will not be distributed until necessary.  I did impress upon the students the importance of taking care of their workbooks and to keep them in their individual shelves.  I cannot simply replace them so easily, should they end up missing.