We had a pretty quiet day today. But it was pretty productive for the children -- and for me, too, since I spent much of the time sorting things out in readiness for teaching fourth grade next year. After checking the homework -- a little disappointing to see how many are still have problems with regrouping -- we went on to rereading the "Fox in the Moon" story and completing the thinking maps. Most children worked with a partner here. After that, they worked on the study questions for the Aesop fable, "The Country Mouse and the City Mouse." This is our final Open Court story of the year.
We played softball again after recess, and they're finally starting to do some decent teamwork in the outfield. That's as much a social skill as it is an athletic one! I read them some more of The Wind in the Willows after PE while we waited for our lunchtime.
After lunch, we reviewed the various solid geometric figures and how they can be combined in drawings of houses and other buildings. Students then went on to do some pictures of farmhouses connecting this math topic to our OCR unit. We'll have some of them on the blog tomorrow (if I remember to bring fresh camera batteries from home....)
Homework: (1) Study spelling. (2) Do the math worksheet -- side 1 deals with comparing numbers and the other with addition and subtraction. We'll really stress this in the last few days because this is a skill which should be second nature to them by now.
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