This week in Language Arts, we focused on three specific skills; writing in the form of giving directions (Monday), writing in the form of self reflections (Tuesday), and writing in the form of generating a short story (Wednesday). Practicing these three types of writing, allows us to cover the basic foundations of language is generally used, which pull on our brains in slightly different ways. This also became an exercise in time management, because there's always enough time to write... as long as we're actually writing. 🤗  We also introduced editing/revisions this week! Thursday and Friday, we each personally sat with Mr. Josh at the smile table and edited one body of work we had written this week. First, we made a list of words with corrected spelling, then we received notes on punctuation, letter size and structure, and spacing. After that, we went to work on our rewrites! We didn't all complete the new revisions of our work, which is fine because it's the mindset shift of returning to edit what we've already finished which was the goal.

This week in Math, we learned one new skill to help us with our review work and that was 2 by 1 multiplication problems! We spent all of Monday learning and practicing the formula, and then we revisited it the rest of the week. We also focused in on problems requiring carrying and borrowing, making fact families, calculating perimeter and area, and closing out with a bit of fun graphing exercises. In addition to the intention of strengthening these skills unto fluidity, these were all specially selected to allow them the room to develop and even greater skill. Logic. This entire class excels at being given directions; if you tell them what to do with a problem, they will cheerfully do it! However, we want to also help build their confidence in their own problem solving skills! Using this review format, it gives them the platform and space to cultivate being logically minded, confident problem solvers.