Monday, September 9

Today was an overall good day. Mr. Potato Head has a nose! We worked with our Rubik's Cubes... this project is/was great is theory but some are really having a tough time and it seems to be causing unneccessary tears. Stay tuned. After special, we took the Scholastic Math Inventory. This was the first of 3 times we'll take it this year and it is just another snapshot of your child's math abilities. After recess, we learned more about Summer, Auggie's lunchtime buddy. She likes Auggie because he is cool beans! We had a pretty solid Reader's Workshop (this is where we earned the nose) where we worked with vocabulary, reflected on our reading capabilities and read silently. In Writer's Workshop, we discussed and practiced writing without boundaries. Students really enjoyed this! Finally, we took our first pre-test in spelling. We are working with short vowel sounds this week. Most students have their list in their planners but others will be finishing in the morning. Finishing the day a little earlier than last year is proving to be a lot tougher than I thought! 3:25 comes pretty quickly...