Thursday, January 25

 Hi parents,

We had another good but somewhat unruly day. What I mean by this is that when the students are actually working, everything's great, but the transitions between activities have been painfully slow and I find myself asking 3+ times for students to put things away, line up, come to the carpet, etc.

In the morning we learned French personal pronouns (I, you, he, she, we, etc.) We learned that in French, you can make sentences using just a personal pronoun and a verb, (for example, "I am eating" is "Je mange") and the students wrote their own sentences in French.

In math, we practiced measuring perimeter using rulers. The students measured the perimeters of books in the classroom. We talked about how with rectangles, you only need to know the length and width, because the parallel sides are the same length.

In the afternoon, we had Music and Daily LA, and we read A Rover's Story.

Tomorrow, we're going to have a spelling quiz, and a very short (6 questions) addition and subtraction review, because I've noticed that the students have been a bit lazy with their morning math, and I don't want them to lose the skills they worked so hard to build.

Have a nice night,

Zac