Monday, May 31

Hi parents,

Today was a very exciting day for our class because Ms. Rehill came back to visit! Aside from that it was a pretty normal Monday.

In the morning, the students did an amazing job with their journal writing. I am so blown away by their independence when writing. Lately, I've been telling the class it is their job to work for at least 15 minutes (set on a visible timer) before they're allowed to be done, and we've discussed various ways that they can best use this time to ensure all of their writing represents their best work. This simple approach has worked wonders with this particular group of students, and it's fun to look back at their work from the start of the year and compare it to what they're doing now.

We finished up our Shape of the Day worksheets by investigating pyramids and prisms. Rectangular Prisms are shapes I'd like the students to be especially familiar with, as they're super common and easy to identify just about anywhere you go. It's also likely that students will use many rectangular prisms for our boat building project. Please remember to send bottles tomorrow if you have not already done so! 

Today we discussed the wide variety of different types of boats and ships, and the purposes these boats serve. The students drew tentative plans for the boats they hope to create as well. So far, we've got sailboats, cruise ships, house boats, and battleships!

At the end of the day, we did some quiet reading, read Junie B Jones, listened to a scary story, and practiced our new spelling words.

Have a nice evening!

Zac