This morning started off with a very long convo. Many students earned their hats today, which was exciting! Celine also shared an Irish dance with Lower Division. She was fantastic!

Once we got back to the classroom, believe it or not, we only had time to complete math boxes before it was snack time. (I'm sure you're disappointed we didn't do more.) -page 172

During math, I helped the class understand that...

ten x ten = hundred

Okay, I know that seems too simple. But if you change it to:

4 tens x 8 tens = 32 hundred

It makes this problem easier: 40 x 80 = 3,200

Please see the modified power point below.

After completing several examples, we completed page 173 in our math journals.

This afternoon, I introduced similes...well, actually, we had a guest teacher today! Mrs. Carpenter came to visit! She taught the lesson on similes and when I wasn't looking, she had the students create an amazing book about similes.



The document each child completed looked like this:


The children spent some time in the library today catching up on Reading Counts and checking out books for the long break.

Mrs. Driscoll allowed them to complete their driver's licenses, too, so it was a fun afternoon!

I do hope you can come back to school tomorrow! We missed you!

Mrs. Neal