Namaste.

So, today we had 2 quiet times and during the second, I showed them two of my favorite relaxing yoga poses--child's pose and corpse pose or savasana. (I didn't tell them the name of corpse pose though. :) ) They enjoyed learning them but were very giggly so didn't get the full effect but we'll keep trying.

Our day began with completing their M4T and in our morning meeting, we discovered that we have as many students as there are letters of the alphabet! So, we each took a letter and named a food that begins with that letter. We struggled with U and X. Then, Will brought up that Mr. B asks them if they have class numbers-which we do not-and thought instead, they could have class letters. Cool! So, I made slips and we pulled out of a hat. What letter is your kiddo? We sorted our words for word study and found that, "When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking!" In Writer's Workshop, we read The Memory String by Eve Bunting and discussed and found examples of how the author showed us instead of telling us. In Wonder, Auggie and Jack got into some trouble where Auggie lost his hearing aids! However, he gained some new friends. (They were so mad when we stopped reading!) Today was the final day working with our September issue of StoryWorks, where we worked on close reading and critical thinking questions about the history of Candy. Hopefully, they can tell you some interesting facts. We had gym, lunch and recess and Mr. Burkhart said listening was not a strength of ours today. After quiet time, we completed our chaotic Math Workshop where kiddos were in all different spots in their learning! Tomorrow, we'll begin our unit on multiplication and division so get practicing those basic facts! We finished up our Ohio Studies Weekly on researching where we read and interpreted graphs and used table of contents, glossary and index to answer questions. I think we will be good to research next week! Our day ended with Wonder/I-time. Did your child wonder today? Work with a teacher to better understand a skill? Get caught up on their work? Read? Write?