Tuesday, September 10

 Hi parents,

We had another good day today. I've got to be honest, I'm struggling with keeping up with the rate at which this class is finishing their work. They're really blasting through things, especially in math.

We started a fairly big writing task today, called "My Story", where the students are basically writing an autobiography. Today we focused on 'early years'. Students wrote about when they were born, and also about an important memory / event that occurred early in their lives. They included things like discovering a passion or meeting a close friend, as well as funny anecdotes that have stuck with them over the years.

In math, we continued talked about "Expanded Form", and how a number like '124' can also be written as "100 + 20 + 4". The students completed a cut and glue number matching activity, and then used the Montessori materials to represent some numbers.

In the afternoon, the students learned how to access Epic! as another way of doing "Listen to Reading" during Daily LA.

We played Bench Dodgeball in gym, and ended our day with a whole class math game called Classroom of Doom.

Have a nice day,

Zac