What is this?!?

However, the REAL questions should be: Who drew this and how long did it take? What type of manipulatives did it take to create this masterpiece on the Room 401 chalkboard?

This - - - graph took a lot of measuring, but most of all, I witnessed cooperation and teamwork first hand. Thank you boys for working together to try to make it perfectly proportional.
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Room 401
Sept. 15, 2006

Today was our first Friday Class Meeting. We spent the first 10 minutes practicing how to make a circle by moving our desks to the side and making a circle with our blue chairs (which by the way, many students labeled with masking tape.) Do you remember the three important rules to keep in mind before beginning?

1) Safety First
2) Quiet
3)Efficient

Next, Miss Lou explained the reason for the "conch" (which was actually a porcelain statue given to her by a student.) Whoever holds the conch may conduct the meeting and call on students to speak. Miss Lou passed the conch around the circle and asked the students to each use one adjective to describe how they felt about making a circle and one word to desribe their sibling or neighbors. Words like: fun, weird, fast, super fast, boring, surprisingly efficient and safe were used to describe our circle making technique. Words like: cute, annoying, mean, evil and invisible were used to describe our brothers, sisters or neighbors. One student said, Monster!" (Is that an adjective???)

We played I Like My Neighbor Who and the students got shuffled up. The business portion of the meeting officially began to make announcements (some more important than others) and ended with a long discussion about respect and cooperation. We ended the serious portion of the meeting by going around the circle and making a verbal agreement to (at least) try to work together and create a less "challenging" community within our Room 401 walls and beyond.

Thank you students for a productive first class meeting. Of course, our meeting ended with yet another game we learned in Room 214. This game is called Mask. Five students ended up as the champions for mask and they won two prizes from the prize bucket. Other students received one prize. Then the students had free time after putting their desks back nicely.

Thanks again 5th graders and have a fabulous weekend!