Quick post

Hello,

It's tough to do some of these posts when it gets so late in the day and I have a bunch more to do. I'm going to be quick.

Highlights:

Guitar club was great. Mr. Larrabee and Mrs. Wilson joined us. We all learned Mary had a little lamb. Even me. I'm going to practice to clean it up and do it without looking at the guitar, but I'm pretty happy about it.

We discussed 9/11. The kids asked about it yesterday and I shelved it until today. Lots of questions. Why? being one of the main ones.

Lots of rounding in math. Review for most. We were taking a number and rounding it to the nearest ten, hundred and thousand. For example: 46,791 would round to 46,790, 46,800 and 47,000 respectively.

Math weekly challenges will start next week. More on those later.

We are going to be keeping track of all the books that we read this year in two ways. Pictures of each finished book will be put up on the wall with the name(s) of the child(ren) that finished it. I'm hoping to circle the classroom a couple of times. We also will have book logs in our notebooks where we will rate the book according to difficulty as well as how much we liked it. We will be keeping track of the book genres on that log as well.

I'm trying to put together all the details of our Plimoth Plantation trip in October. Cost estimates for buses are really high. I think we need another car wash.

One last thing: I hope we can be more aware of diet restrictions in the classroom before bringing in sweets. Healthy snacks are welcome. Please give me a heads up of at least a few days on anything else that you would like to bring in. Thank you so much.

All for now.

Thanks,

Mr. Shea