Today was such a beautiful day! We could not have asked for better weather to be planting the lilac trees. We were shocked when all 200 trees were planted in about an hour and a half by the third and fourth grade classes. Great job and way to work hard! We all had a fun time being outside on such a sunny afternoon and enjoyed doing out part to help make Frontier a great place to go to school. From now on, the students can all day that they planted those trees. How cool is that!
Today we also continued working on long division. Yikes! Overall the class is doing really well learning the long division but it has so many steps that they are hard to keep track of! I am working on creating or finding some kind of song or video to help us all keep it straight. I am pretty impressed with their ability to keep track of everything though! I have heard many families talk about how math now is taught so differently than what it was like when they were growing up and learning these skills. I may post a video soon so you know exactly what I am teaching the students to do so if students say, "That's not how Miss D. taught us to do it!" you have an easily accessible resource to look at to find the answer! :)
Tomorrow students have their Little House on the Prairie vocabulary words, workbook packet, and their spelling contract due tomorrow. They have had all of these assignments since Monday and have been given at least 30 minutes DAILY to work on them. When students were getting their homework ready to take home today though I noticed that some people were not using that time wisely and have a lot of work to do. Maybe next time they will learn their lesson! :)
Have a great evening and study hard for your spelling test. It is our second to last one for the whole year (whoa!). Make it count and end the year strongly!
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