Clinton Elementary.

Mrs. Lisette Estrada

Room B-16

April 7, 2014

In the morning, students come in and check homework and work on daily math
problem (DOL Daily Oral Language). (First 30 min of class.)
6 Math problems on board. 532 x 11
One student picks six sticks out of a cup to come up and do math problems on the
board. Other students are checking their problems in their journals.
DOL is a work sheet, they go over as a class Mrs. Estrada writes the correct answers
on the board.
Mrs. Estrada has a desk in the center middle of the room. 5 groups of tables with 6
students at each table.
Guided Reading 6 groups. On group is doing Leap Frog reading program. One group
works with teacher, one group is on the computers, one group plays boggle, one
group reads, one group is doing a writing assignment and one group is doing
fluency. There are 6 different options for the students to choose from and they must
complete five of them by the end of the week. Teacher gives students leeway.
Starting a new book today. Charlottes Web. Teacher poses few questions for
students to think-pair-share. What do we know about farms? The students sit at
their desk and teacher pulls sticks to read the story. Student who reads stands up.
Recess for 15 minutes. Optional for teachers, if they choose to take kids out, they
must watch them.
RRJ: Describe Fern based on her actions and dialogue. Identify at least 3 character
traits to describe her. Cite the dialogue from the story. They are given questions to
take home for HW.
LUNCH 12:15-1:05. Social Studies 1:05-2:05. Then math for the rest of the day.
Measurements.

April 8, 2014

Students check their work in division by multiplying.
Its important to use academic language when explaining the steps. Add a zero in the
ones place, not put a zero under the 6.
Next day of charlottes web, frontloading by asking the students to write about an
object that has human qualities to spark interest and introduce talking animals in
the story.
Interesting: when a teacher is absent, they are not guaranteed a substitute. If no sub,
the class will get split among the other classes in the grade level.
At the end of each reading lesson,
Rule game. Separate class and tell them theyre going to play a game, but give them
no rules. Game 1 no rules. Game 2 everyone yelled out different rules. Regroup the
class and talk in groups about what they should do differently for game 3.
April 14, 2014
Students begin to fill in Charlottes Web lap/scrap book last week. Characters and
vocabulary list are included.
Today do group project doing character report: 4 characters, students need to list
actions the character does and then adjectives that describe the characters. Groups
of 4, so each character has two groups.
Writing questions this week: how wet can you get? Write an adventure story about a
rainy day you get soaking wet.
Guided reading today: Fluency. One student reads paragraph, then we re read the
paragraph chorally as a group.
Warm-up math problems: 562 x 25=
The guided reading in a group with me reads Super Science. Today Shake-Proof
Bridge. Use their bodies to demonstrate pilings and why its better to construct them
at a slant instead of straight up and down.
CW Questions from HW:
o Why did Mrs. Arable say she was worried about Fern?
o Why do you think Fern is able to hear the animals? OPINION. (she has sharp
ears, its like a metaphor for having good hearing)
o Unanswered questions: whats charlottes plan and will it work?
o Charlotte and Wilbur are friends: use details from the story to support that.
R.A.C.E Restate the Question, Answer, Cite the Evidence, explain the evidence.
Character Report. Each group has a character assigned and they must find verbs and
adjectives cited from the text about each character. Did a t-chart for each character
after to go over examples and use page numbers.
Kris and jen went out to eat. Kris ordered egg rolls and jen ordered a spicy tuna roll.
Their bill totaled $18.49. kris added a $2.37 tip and Jen gave a $3.57 tip. What is the
total amount of the bill? 18.49 + 2.37 + 3.57 = 24.43

APRIL 18-27 COMPTON SPRING BREAK
APRIL 29-MAY 1 WITH MOTHER

May 5, 2014
Learning millions place. Write in word form and write in expanded form. 7,342,160.
Place values, students having difficulty realizing that you start with ones place in
millions.
Multiplication test on Wednesday.
When showing multiplication facts, always point to the sign to give visual for times
Close Reading Poster: 1. Read entire text without stopping to get the flow. 1. Read
and circle important and unfamiliar words. Take annotations. 3. Read and record
important details.
Guided reading: writing center, haiku is a poem about nature. First line 5 syllables,
second line 7 syllables, 3
rd
line 5 syllables. Onomatopoeia, and personification,
giving human like qualities to non-human things.
White board game, red hundreds, blue tens, white ones. 3 little dice in a cube. Roll
dice. Look at mini dice and write it in place value chart on white board. Then write
in expanded form.
Charlottes web chapter 20,21
Close reading, landslide lookout. Little flower for details, rectangle for important
words, question mark for questions and house for main idea, exclamation for
surprise
Students will write an obituary for charlotte on behalf of Wilbur. Need example of
obituary for tomorrow.

May 6, 2014
Students learning obituary for charlotte, showing examples of pet obituaries online.
Some students started crying remembering their pets that had died.
One student writing expanded form math, started writing the commas after
counting three places from the left instead of the right. *need to be able to notice
this in the future.
Social studies assignment, student chooses one animal to represent our classroom
and why SYMBOL
Mothers day project. Background poster I Love you because. Students write
their own message on a piece of paper and decorate. Then takes pictures of
individual students and print.
Social studies, beginning to learn about government.

May 12, 2014
Testing today. Fluency tests on aimsweb.com.
Beginning open court. Round character see many different sides of their character
vs flat character stay the same throughout the entire story.
Reading a character, what are they like, feelings traits and motivations.
Students fold piece of paper in half, one side for round (charlotte) and then tell why
she was a round character, then on the other side is flat character
Creating science lesson segment about matter.
Hansel and omar talk outside classroom to resolve friendship issue.