After being out for a couple days, it was nice to come back and see the wonderful faces of the students in room 19! I really was quite sick on Monday, and wasn't feeling so great today, and the children was amazingly cooperative and helpful. I really am fortunate to have such a wonderful class!
We did some follow up today on the story they had been reading about city birds. Urban Roosts is not quite as hard a piece of reading as City Lots had been, but it still contained a lot of information packed into a few pages. Much of the hard work on the story the students did with the two substitute teachers. They read it, discussed it, and completed a study guide on it. Today we reviewed those study questions, and we did an art activity based on the story. I'll post one or two of the pictures tomorrow.
Students completed learning all of the lowercase cursive letters today. They will need to start practicing these a lot, particularly learning how to connect some of the letters. Cursive will start appearing in the next few weeks as a regular homework assignment. We also started to learn a new song for singing and for the recorder.
The big thing we did today was to start multiplication of two digits by one digit, e.g., 24 x 6. This is hard for the children even when they know their times tables. They will tend to make a couple predictable mistakes. The most common is to fail to regroup properly. You'll know this problem when they tell you that 24 x 6 = 1224. What they've done here is to fail to regroup to 20 of 24 on top of the 2.
Homework: Students need to complete their multiplication sheet for homework. I'll give them a spelling list tomorrow, but it won't be tested until Tuesday of next week.
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