Scratch Paper

The first order of business: do any of our families need scratch paper? We have a lot of paper that has been used on a single side and if someone can use it, I'd much rather pass it on than just recycle it. I use it at home in my printer all the time (I only use new paper if it is something that is "official.") Please send me an email if you can use some scratch paper.

On to happenings of today. The jog-a-thon was great fun! Students ran their little hearts out. I think if we had had twice as much time, they would have just kept running. I enjoyed walking against the traffic so I could high-five and cheer on. What great fun. The kids were wiped out after. Everything was amazing. Thanks to the BSPTO for such a well-planned event.

This morning students chose a NF text to read in their table groups and are working on selecting multiple facts and ranking them in order of importance. We are continuing to work on our ability to synthesize what we read and deepen our understanding of an author's intention.

We continued working on spelling concepts, practicing with words that end in -ch and -tch.

We've started the revision process on our all-about books. Revising is much different from editing in that revising involves looking at the ideas and the information presented rather than just grammatical correctness. It's a hard notion for 7 year olds, but we're struggling through.

In math we compiled the data from our data collection yesterday. Each group made a representation of their collected data and then compiled it with other data from the same grade level. We then looked at how the trend of "lost teeth" looked as we progressed through the grades. It was interesting to see the shift from first to fourth grade.

Ask your child about the "happy bucket." Whining, tattling, bickering, blaming, complaining have started to take up more and more of my time, so we've created a place for these thoughts to go. At the end of the day, the bucket gets dumped and all the badness goes away!

Have a wonderful evening. Read a book with your child. Throw the Frisbee or walk the dog together.