Welcome Back!

We all came back, save one, today, and judging by our sharing this morning, everybody seemed to have had a pleasant break.

We jumped back into our Monday routine today. We did silent reading and conferences first. We then did a review of short vowel sounds in both blending and dictation. The children explored the meaning of some tough vocabulary words, and they did a great job of figuring out the meaning from context. We then read the "City Superheroes" story in the Open Court text which poetically explains the near superhuman powers of rats and raccoons.

After recess, we explored doing improvised melodies over a simple ostinato. It's a great activity, but today was a sort of "dress rehearsal." We'll do it again and with luck get it on videotape. We then went to Tech Center where we continued on our City Wildlife HyperStudio project.

We did a fun variation on Dodgeball in PE today. Students had to do laps around the circle if they got out hit. It made it an aerobic activity, as well as giving them an incentive to avoid getting hit! We used some of the special foam balls that we purchased with your kind donations. In Math we started on 2 digit by 1 digit multiplication (e.g., 24 x 6). They'll need some handholding with this tonight.

Homework: (1) Study spelling. (2) Math, page 293, numbers 1-7. This can be answers only. (3) Math, pages 295-296, numbers 2 -27. Important! They MUST copy all problems on these pages and show all work!