Dr. Johnson's Reading Blog

On the left side of the blog you will see a link to our classroom publishing blog. Here, I will have students, on occasion, share pieces of writing we are working on. It gives them another forum to publish their writing. http://mrjohnsonclasspublishing.blogspot.com/ Students have been practice using various grammatical structures to create more descriptive and detailed sentences by going beyond using traditional sentence structures. I think after you read some of their sentences, you can get a sense of what we are working on.

Sorry I'm just getting these posted but here are some pictures from our zoo trip.

The next few weeks are going to be busy. I try to keep my calendar on the blog updated but it helps to list things out: Thursday, October 9 - Curriculum Night (7:00 - 7:45) Friday, October 10 - All School Field Trip to the Zoo Thursday, October 16 & Friday, October 17 - Student Holidays Friday, October 31 - Half Day for Students Now that our Friday gathering finished last week, we are slowly moving forward in many of our studies. Explorations This week I am going to teach students how to play Yahtzee. When it comes to teaching probability, I prefer to do it within the context of games so that students can strategize based on their understanding of probability. Math This week we continue to work on creating tables and constructing charts to match our findings. Included in this are mental math strategies for multiplying large numbers. Science This week we wrap up our study of weather before we move onto animals, adaptions, and their habitats. Our zoo trip will get thi