Yes, it was April Fools Day today, and much to my surprise, my class didn't forget about it! You'll be pleased to know that in your absence, a very clever (and brave) third grader placed a small, but frighteningly realistic, pile of dog poo on my desk this morning. Can you believe it?! All I can say is, it's a good thing your teacher is not a screamer. :)

The rest of the day was fairly uneventful, but you'll have to ask them how the same joke went when played on Mrs. Hershman this afternoon!

This morning we completed our synonym, awesome word choice hamburger (they are on display in the classroom now) and shared the answers to the synonym puzzle we started a couple of days ago. Children were learning words like elated and putrid! I love the word putrid!

To complement our study of word choice, a few lucky students were able to act out a small 5 minute play about a poodle who had lost her glasses. We have some future Oscar winners in our classroom, that's for sure!

After our spelling test, we spend the morning singing Spanish songs. (Senora tried to pull an April Fools joke herself, but most of the class didn't buy it.)

In math, we created fraction strips. I gave the class strips of construction paper, one piece at a time, and we folded each strip to make:

HALVES
FOURTHS
EIGHTHS
THIRDS
SIXTHS

Each strip was folded into the appropriate size fractions, labeled, and glued into our math journals. (page 191)

We also compared fractions using the fraction bars found here and completed the frames and arrows puzzles on page 192.

This afternoon, we continued to read in your Roald Dahl book. We can catch you up next week. Seatwork included:

Finish your hamburger and complete two worksheets:

Analogies & Onomatopoeia

You can also practice analogies by visiting the links under the "Language Building" heading found here.

I hope you are feeling better! We missed you so much. Enjoy the long weekend!
:)Mrs. Neal