Today was a very strange day, indeed...
Simon's aunt, Debbie Dunn, an Olympic hopeful and world-class runner (with the medals to prove it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Dunn) came by the classroom. Simon's mom told me that this would be happening, but to be honest I thought I misunderstood what was going to occur in the classroom. Had I been a little bit more intelligent, I would have snapped a picture of the whole thing. I've still got some learning to do with this blog thing.
My math group did a bunch of work with measuring tapes today. We are gearing up to measure a bunch of the playground equipment and attempt to make a model of the playground. This exercise should hit a lot of areas in math that kids will enjoy. They had a lot of fun with the tape measures, and so far no one has gotten hurt. I can't make this one up for you Evan, but I bet if you asked Arias, he and I would gladly reproduce the lesson during recesses. We're pretty big fans of Evan.
My reading group did work in their Houghton Mifflin books today. We read about lightning storms from a story by Warren Faidley. We will continue this reading tomorrow in class, and will be doing questions at the end to strengthen our comprehension skills.
The weather has been terrible, and the kids are starting to show the signs of winter. Our traveling students missed some insane winds last night. The power didn't go out, but planes weren't flying and I watched one of those big green trash cans with a bear lid fly across the road around 8pm. Enjoy your beautiful weather, and your swimming!
We continued working in our writing journals today, and I swear that I will get our Daily Language Exercises up on here soon.
I'll write to you tomorrow!
Mr. B
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