Monday, January 29

 Hi parents,

Today we reviewed the last couple chapters of A Rover's Story, and then the students wrote the next chapter, based on what they thought would happen next. It was awesome to see how well they captured the personalities of the characters, and referenced specific events from earlier in the book.

We're doing more "mad minutes" this week, and this time, we're tying in some graphing as well. The students are creating line charts to document their scores for each day. It's pretty amazing to think that at the start of the year, we were doing 6-8 basic facts for Morning Math, and now many students are getting through 20+ basic facts in just two minutes. 

In the afternoon we did Daily LA, and learned about the -ow sound for spelling. We also learned about 'tension' and 'elastic' forces.

Have a nice night,

Zac