This morning, we identified the monsters! I placed on the board all seven monsters we created, along with each set of adjectives to see if the students could connect them. It was a lot of fun! I will post the monsters in the window later this week.


I shared this book with the class today and talked about how the author made the dog and cat's personalities sound unique...and perfect for the animals they are. Afterward, we talked about other characters who might have a rivalry. There was a long list! Brother/sister, Goldilocks/3 Bears, Spider/Fly, Ketchup/Mustard, Book/Movie, etc.

Tomorrow, we'll be planning a short story about two characters of your choice to mimic the way I am The Dog, I am the Cat was written.


During math, we discussed how a decimeter (a long) is 1/10th of a meter and a centimeter (a cube) is 1/100th of a centimeter. It was kind of tricky, but I stuck a meter stick onto the white board and tried to line up a group of 'longs' and 'cubes' across the top of it! Obviously, lining up the longs were easier as the cubes kept falling off.

It is a tricky lesson to explain, but we did figure out that a long is 0.1 the length of the meter stick and a cube is 0.01 of a meter stick. I will help you complete journal page 119 when you return.

This afternoon, Mrs. McCracken helped us navigate our way through...

The students LOVED it! They found out all sorts of interesting information.

We looked at the rubric for our Explorers project, too. I wanted to be sure all students knew what to do to get a high score. Yours will be here waiting for you.

We ended the day in Mrs. Driscoll's class where we learned more about Microsoft Word. We were making flow charts and using SmartArt like pros!

We've missed you and hope you come back to school tomorrow!
:)Mrs. Neal