As I am sitting here watching the kickoff of the NFL season and grading a few papers, I thought I would give you a quick look at what we have been doing. Today we talked about characters in a story. When you read about them, you have to know what their names are and what they are doing. While we were practicing our read to self, we got a chance to draw a character or two from the stories we were reading. I was really impressed with not only the drawings, but the writings that the students are doing. One student wrote me a few sentences about Wall-E, and another wrote about the characters in Brave. I loved what they did today! The students have also been excited to be reading the books they got at Barnes and Noble last Friday. In math we played a review game over the first chapter in our math lessons. We will have a short assessment tomorrow. If they do as well on the assessment as they did on the review game, then I will have an easy time grading them. I was impressed yet again as they worked together to come up with the right answers. The highlight for the day, your kiddos will tell you, was our introduction to our science lesson. We passed out our science journals and talked about inorganic and organic matter. We also talked about how dead things in soil is known as humus. Tomorrow we are going to make some observations about soil and really get a hands on look at what soil really is. The students are going to do most of the teaching and I will be there for some guidance. We are going to talk about their discoveries. It is going to be fun!! At the end of our science lessons we will be making our own compost. (It is in the near future.) If you are looking for some extra things to do at home, you can always read or practice counting. Today we started counting by 2's, 5's and 10's. Our goal is to skip count to 120 using 10's and 5's. Well, that is all for this evening. Look for the next update on Friday!
p.s. Go Broncos!!, beat the Steelers in week #1
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