A Serious Case of the Giggles!

Well today was a pretty good day with a lot of hard work. This afternoon the class, myself included, had a fit of giggling about something we can't even remember why! It was a good laugh that I think we all needed. :)

Today we worked hard reading our leveled books in centers and summarizing our favorite one. Most students chose Tall Tony about a students who gets tired of being so tall until he starts playing basketball, and The Dive about a girl who gets invited to a pool party, but cannot dive! I was impressed with how well the students summarized and really could identify the problem and solution in the book, which is something we have been working on lately in class. We also worked some more on our phonics to improve our reading and writing as much as we can before fourth grades comes. Today we worked on hard long vowel sounds that are trickier to spell and read. Everyone did a great job reading and writing these difficult sounds!

This afternoon we worked more on our science unit about the human body and continued our look at the digestive system. Today we focused on teeth and nutrition. We talked about the new pyramid and the five food groups, plus the one for oils and fats. Everyone did a great job of naming foods that could go in each group! Great job!

Tomorrow will be our last day in April for 2010 (can you believe it!). If the weather is nice we are going to be doing our school clean sweep so my fingers are crossed for good weather, though I have to admit, I wouldn't mind some of this rain they keep predicting and moving back. As a Washington native, I am not used to springs that are this dry! :)

Assignments due Friday are the following:

1. Workbook packet pages
2. Free-writing
3. Spelling contract, with 2 activities completed
4. Workbook page 57-59
5. Phonics page 45-48

I realize it sounds like an awful lot but the students have been working on the first three items on the list since Monday so those should be mostly (if not completely) done. The workbook and phonics pages are things that we worked on today in class and most of the students got done during the work time or the "study hall" work time the students had.

Great job everyone on bringing in ALL of their homework today! That hasn't happened in a LONG time! I am super proud of you and keep up that great work!

Spelling quiz tomorrow so study hard! See you tomorrow!