Wednesday, April 1

 Hi parents,

We had a fun April Fools Day today with no tears! In the morning the students got new seats, went to Music, and then did an art activity in which they had to sketch the most beautiful floor tile in our school. As a follow up, they were challenged to find the one 'original' floor tile from when LBS was constructed, which is made from real marble, and the only way to tell is by tapping every tile with a pencil and listening for the difference in sound. 

That was my April Fools joke.

Yesterday we learned about writing awesome 'beginnings' to stories. Today, we focused on writing the 'middle'. Students were given a pre-written beginning and ending to a story called 'The Missing Carrots'. All they had to do was fill in the middle. 

In math, we looked at skip-counting patterns on the hundreds chart once again. This time we went a little further, examining 6's, 7's, and 9's.

In the afternoon we had yet another awesome author visit, from Melissa Allan, author of "Brave Like The Buffalo". She also taught the students the accompanying song and answered lots of questions.

Tomorrow is our spelling quiz, and we haven't practiced much this week, so please review once more at home.

Have a nice night,

Zac