Happy Veterans Day! You can click the picture above to send a virtual Thank You card to Veterans. Please do!

We started off the day with a wonderful speaker, Michael Jernigan, a wounded Veteran from St. Pete. He brought his guide dog and told us a little bit about his life without sight.

This morning, we reviewed the "Caught Ya", finished our letters to MOTE Marine, and checked Wordly Wise. Afterward, we practiced spelling with a few games.

In math, we reviewed the concept of area. I gave the students grid paper (you can find some here) and asked them to draw and color in as many different rectangles they could find with an area of 24 square centimeters. There are eight possible rectangles...can you find them all?

Once the children discovered the possible rectangles, we listed the height and width of each rectangle to look for a pattern. You can read about it by visiting this website and clicking "area".

We completed page 74 in the math journal as well.

This afternoon, we held rotations. We are in new groups now and are reading our Judy Blume book. We will try to read the first chapter in Fudge-A-Mania, the book I sent home to you.

During seatwork, students were to complete their Pet Show Story (you are done) and then they were allowed to visit the Everyday Math Online website to play some fun math games. I will email you your username and password.

Later this afternoon, we will be going to the computer lab. I will let you know what fun Mrs. Driscoll has in store for us!

We hope you are feeling better and can come back to school tomorrow!
:)Mrs. Neal