Twirling Tuesday!

With Picture Lady this afternoon, we did not get a chance to pass out papers. Consequently, the children will not get feedback on the verb tense quiz until tomorrow. Thus, I will not give an additional quiz on this till next week. I will ask them to take this home and study the verbs that they missed. I will encourage them to write the 3 tenses at least 3 times each as practice.

Tomorrow they will have an 8's times table quiz. Along with their use of flash cards, I wanted to share with you a free website that the children can access, with your permission. If you go to funbrain.com you will see math games. Click on that section and you will see various games that the children can play to reinforce math skills. They can compete against themselves and even make a chart out of their progress. The one that I would like them to practice at home right now is the Math Baseball. Click on multiplication and away you go! However, the game on place value would be beneficial as well as we are reading numbers and manipulating numbers into the millions this week. Check out the math homework tonight. We started it in class in hopes that when they got home, they wouldn't have any trouble. Interesting census facts that led into a great class discussion about the US Census.

Today we revisited a conversation that we had had as a class at the beginning of the year. We talked about short and long rubberbands in the make up of one's brain. The long rubberbands are things that you are seemingly good at or need very little practice. The short rubberbands are those things that one has some difficulty with and may interfer in one's learning process. The children made a list of both. Then they chose the top three items for each category. They are to come home tonight and share this list with you. They are to ask you for your feedback. They are to think about ways that they can stretch their short rubberband. You may have some good suggestions as well. Tomorrow, we will begin a writing piece based on this idea. We are considering this writing our New Year's Resolutions.

We will be treated to a Winter Band Concert tomorrow at 1:00pm.

I did ask the children to get in the habit of checking our class blog, if they haven't already. This will help instill a sense of responsibility and that can be in charge of themselves for certain things such as reading a blog daily and making sure that they are prepared for the next day of school.