June 5

Highlights:

• Today we went over story sentence starters and brainstormed a list of various starters for our Arctic stories. Most of us are finished our story maps and are practicing telling our stories and gathering feedback before starting to write our first drafts. 
• Then, we learned about outriggers. Boats with outriggers can hold more cargo ("robots") because they help to balance the weight on the boat. They make the boat more stable and are often attached to racing canoes. 
• We were given extra tools to build an outrigger onto our boat from yesterday: 2 popsicle sticks, 4 elastics, 4 straws, and 4 stir sticks

This one held 29 pennies (robots) (without the outrigger it held 2)

This one held 46 pennies (without the outrigger it held 2)

This one held 42 pennies (without the outrigger it held 11)

This one held 22 pennies (without the outrigger it held 2)

This one held 15 (without the outrigger it held 4)

Reminders:

1. Special Helper for tomorrow is Leander (favorite sport or hobby)
2. Mrs. Wilkens' Guided Reading group is to read up to ch. 10 in Charlotte's Web by Monday, June 10th.
3. Please remember to return library books tomorrow