Hump Day

I feel like I have made it over the "hump"!!! We had our first class with our new reading groups today and it feels like we are settled in at last!!!

This morning I was at a meeting discussing student data and it's implications for planning and instruction. While there, Mrs. Benson worked with my math class on rounding three digit numbers to the nearest ten. Mrs. Benson assigned the homework for this evening...students are to choose 5 3-digit numbers and round these to the nearest ten using the method we have practiced in class and at home for the past two days.

During reading we reread The Listening Walk and the students categorized sound words. They also learned and practiced two new cursive letters, l and b.

Following PE, lunch and recess my homeroom completed the science activity that we ran out of time to do yesterday. They used their knowledge of fingerprint patterns to "solve" a crime. Then they wrote about how fingerprinting helped them solve the crime.

Finally, Mrs. Howard stopped by to do a lesson with my homeroom about organization.

Homework: Read for 15 minutes and finish the word sort and/or cursive from my reading class.