Monday

Apologies for missing Friday's post. We had a staff get together after school and after all the hoopla, I never got around to it.

You'll note that tonight your child's spelling homework looks different! We are trying something different in our class and we'll see how it goes. The students and I went over it this morning, so hopefully they will be helpful. I am hoping to find words that our students misspell in their writing to help them become more efficient writers. Kiddos seemed excited about it.

T-shirt alert! Please send your child to school with a plain white t-shirt ASAP. We need them very soon so that we may dye them in preparation for Aussie Day.

Ok, so Monday. No library today as we are headed to the bookfair tomorrow. Students are VERY excited. (Shameless plug: I'm pretty excited too!). We practiced biography presentations today and tomorrow we will start with the first 8-10 biography presenters. We've talked about the importance of looking at the audience and not just reading from the poster. Students are expected to maintain eye contact and engage their audience.

We wrote to our Trucker Buddy this morning. Everyone wants her to come and visit before the end of the year. We'll see what we can do. She is finally back to work after two horrible family emergencies, so I don't know when her next load will have her out our direction.

Students took surveys today in math and made their representations. They are clever thinkers. I could not believe how quickly they got these tasks done! Tomorrow we will talk through one or more sets of data and be on to the next task.

We studied the life cycle of coral today and I am looking forward to your child sharing it with you at Open House. Be on the look out for the LARGE "scuba" mask that hides a gigantic wheel of Coral Life.

Tomorrow our Junior Achievement volunteer will be in for some additional work on communities. The kids love JA.

I hope you're enjoying the sun. I sat on the lawn reading student writing and correcting math papers. It was wonderful!