Roving Reporter: Alisa (Mon, Oct 17)

Hello, parents and students of Room 16. I'm Alisa, your Roving Reporter for Monday, October 17th.

Like every other day our class began doing our language arts, math, and grammar which we call Daily Warm-Ups. After finishing with our Daily Warm-Ups, we began warming up in math on a few problems of prime and composite numbers. Then, we began our lesson on exponents of ten. For example, ten to the fourth power or ten to the fifth power and so on. When we finished with exponents, our class began to learn about prime factorization; a type of method to find the products of a number.

For instance, 42 divided by 2 = 21. 21 divided by 3 = 7. 7 divided by 7 = 1. The prime factorization of 42 = 2 x 3 x 7. That is what we worked on.

Once that was done the clock struck 8:50 and our class was out to PE with the one group that went to the library joining us. Following PE the other people that weren't in the first group to go to library went there. When the people from the library returned, we had another lesson on exponents but now it was 8s, 9s, 10s, and so on!

When we were just in the middle of a problem  - BEEP! BEEP! - the fire alarm was screeching it's head off! Just as our class was about the depart ... "Sorry, Proctor School. It was just a fire alarm," said Ms. Garcia over the loudspeaker.

After all of that ruckus it was recess time. All of a sudden, BEEP! BEEP! Again! Guess what? You're right, it was just a false alarm. Later, after recess, the class rumbled into the classroom and quieted down as we began practicing on prime factorization and winding up by checking.

Once we were finished with it, our class took out their reading books and split up with their 3 o'clock partners (that is how we call our 3:00 partners) and began reading When the Circus Comes to Town.

When the clock struck 12:30 we hungrily came out of the class for lunch. After the scorching hot lunch, we came into the class for reading. Later, Mr. McMurray passed out our spelling pre-test. Once we were finished with that, Mr. McMurray showed us the writing trait of the week: Ideas. Then, we wrote our homework and that was our day!

I'm Alisa and I will see you soon!