It's Friday, Friday, Friday, September 20

TGIF! Cough. Sneeze. Sniff... I've caught a cold. I'll bet the children will tell you how lovely my voice sounded today. They even tried to talk me out of Read Aloud because they were worried I wouldn't be able to do the voices as well. :) We finished up our Ohio Studies Weekly's on Ohio and the Constitution. These newspapers/magazines not only teach us about Social Studies concepts but also help us learn to SEARCH for information, skim, understand what we've read and many other reading and writing and vocabulary skills. If you still receive the newspaper, it would be great to have your child read parts of this with you and you can help them to search, skim and comprehend. In Math, we completed our subtraction activity on the explorelearning.com website. I liked it and the children seemed to enjoy it as well. I hope to use it a few more times over the 30-day free trial. In Wonder, we learned a little bit about Miranda, Via's best friend from before high school. They took a brief break but seem to be finding their way back to each other. We are almost finished with this book (which is good because it is overdue at the library and incurring fines...) and the final section comes back to August. In Reader's Workshop, students played spelling games--Boggle, Spill and Spell, Words in my Head--and checked out Destiny Quest on the computer, as well as reading silently. Final copies of book reviews are finished and will be mailed into Scholastic. I've got my fingers crossed that some of them might be published! We finished our day cleaning out our personal space and getting a little more organized.