One Hundredth Day of School

Not all days are created equal. "This is the best day ever!" remarked a student. Exactly what I wanted to hear. We worked hard to get here. Thanks to the parents who shared a special treat.

We started the day spelling words with embedded /er/ spellings which led later to alphabetizing to the fourth letter in some cases, no problem for some kids. We worked with time-order words and then combined time-order words with a Flow Map of a story of our own choice.

We then tally counted to 100 to make our 100th day headbands. The rest of our afternoon was consumed by 100th day activities endings with treat time. "This is the best day ever!"

Our homework is a review of related facts.

Seventieth Day

We began the day with many students changing seats.

Today we blended with long-a spellings '_ai' and 'ay_'. We continued working with plural and inflected endings after long-e spelled '_y'. We have also been learning how to alphabetize to the second letter. We have been working with homophones and had a project assigned today with homophones. We began a reading selection which will help to answer the question: how is transportation different in different countries. If your child is interested in submitting a digital project, there are many free presentation platforms available on the Web. One which is very easy to learn is Glogster. You must be 14 years of age to open an account, so parent guidance will be necessary. Another good tool is Prezi but takes a little more time to learn.

We used skip counting to solve math problems today. Homework is in math.