Monday, February 09, 2009

Painted Houses

Into every life some rain must fall, they say. As a teacher, I would prefer this not happen between 8:00 am and 2:30 pm, but sometimes it does. Well, we made the best of it and had a good day in room 19.

We started off, as usual, with Independent Reading. We shared a little about our weekend adventures during our Opening, as well as doing Today in History and the other normal activities. We began reading “The Story of Susan LaFlesche Picotte", the saga of the first female Native American physician. It is actually a bit more interesting than it might sound at first.

After recess we talked about the Gold Rush and read a selection from the textbook related to this. We corrected the Math Quarter 2 test after lunch. These are on the gradebook. We also practiced Gold Dust or Bust. In our last hour, we did some painting of the clay architectural forms students did on Thursday. Many are quite good!

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Homework:  Very light tonight. It will be a bit heavier later in the week. (1) Do “Make a Model,” Math pages 328-329. (2) Do the Equivalent Fractions worksheet.

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