Today, however, was WAY to talkative. I think it is that it is nice out, and so we all want to be outside, but enough with making excuses. We know how to move in here without our voices and how to be respectful. We ended up doing more than a few jumping jacks at the close of the day to get out our wiggles and giggles. Better day tomorrow I hope.
As you can see, we sure had fun helping our 2nd grade buddies with their MLK, Jr projects. We have some wonderful future teachers in here! So patient!
Tomorrow is the Awards Assembly for Quarter 3. I texted or called all those that have a child receiving an award. Please keep it a secret. All parents are welcome to attend if they want. It will be at 2:00 in the gym.
Report cards came home today. (Sorry, I thought it was tomorrow). Please look them over and have your child return ONLY the signed envelope. If your child's came home without an envelope that is because they never returned it after Quarter 1. Please look at home and return. Those that return signed envelopes tomorrow will earn $50. Please make sure the kids read my comments to them as well, or better yet, read them together. I am so proud of every kiddo. I have asked some kids to focus on a certain skill in Quarter 3. Please help your child make a plan on how they will accomplish them. Thanks.
Homework tonight is the next page of our massive geometry review. We will go over all of these tomorrow.
Today, in math, we started fractions. After the lesson, I asked kids to share with me one thing they learned that was new. My favorite response was from Ethan. "I never knew that fractions could be so much fun!" That is awesome Ethan. When work is fun, we tend to remember what we learned even more. Yay!
Tomorrow, we will finish up our space unit in Lead 21: Reading. We have learned so much and today we got to read plays and fiction stories about space!
We have two tests tomorrow. One is spelling. The other is our Midwest States and Capital's Test. We reviewed a lot today by playing BINGO. Kids need to really work on finding the locations of states on a blank map. Please sit with them tonight, and practice this. Don't have a map of the Midwest? I have put a link to one under Ms. Erickson's Favorite Sites. By the way, did anyone check out the Mars site last night? Anywhoooo...back to the topic on hand...if your child sits with you and studies their states and capitals tonight (especially the locations) write the capital of Kansas in the planner for $20. Thanks for all your help at home, and I mean it!
Have a super night.
