Tuesday, November 23, 2004

Happy Thanksgiving

We had a delightful day today.

We are working hard to finish up the City Wildlife unit so that we can go on to Imagination. We reviewed long vowel sound patterns, then poured over the intriguing Superheroes selection - the "superheroes" are rats and racoons! - to develop skills like distinguishing main idea and detail, fact and opinion, and fiction and nonfiction. Students also reviewed adverbs, an important skill for their unit test next month.

After recess, we had PE while parent volunteers set up our Thanksgiving Feast. Then the students lined up for a wonderful meal of turkey, dressing, potatoes, macaroni and cheese, and wonderful desserts. They were hungry and they really wolfed it down!

After lunch, we reviewed homework and then I sent them off while I endured a particularly dull meeting. Sigh.

NEXT WEEK, conferences will start. They begin on Wednesday and will conclude the following Tuesday. You will receive a reminder notice Monday for the day and time you requested.

Homework: Finish up any unfinished work from this morning.

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