I can construct, label and interpret bar graphs.

Everyone was randomly dealt a playing card to begin our math lesson.  We then created a bar graph in the pocket chart by the suits - hearts, spades, club, and diamonds to answer the question:
"Which suit did you draw?"
Everyone then colored their own graph to match the data on the class graph and answered a few questions.  A journal entry was written with 3 things Mr. Hebert could learn by reading our bar graph and 1 question he might still have.  We were then all exhausted and went for lunch!

First Impression - a writer needs to make a good first impression on their readers so the reader will want to read on!  Students shared the opening sentence of the books they have been reading and we noticed that authors make a good first impression with:

• a problem
• conversation
• fact
• a question
• action
• a sound

and then we went off to practice by writing our own first impressions in a story written by us!