December 11, 2012

Today was a strange day because there is testing in the building and our specials time has changed.  We now have specials at 10:25-11:15.  We have recess at the end of the day and lunch has not changed.  This means the children are like OH NO what happened?  They are adjusting fine, but it seems strange.  we are having Holidays around the world and will be traveling to all the teachers rooms to visit another country.  We are learning how these countries celebrate their Holidays and how they are different form America.  We made it to Italy today, ask them what they learned?  We had normal lesson in reading, writing, and math.  we learned how to use contexts clues to figure out nonsense words and we completed are fairy tale unit on story elements.  We then did our writing all about subjects by writing about our country we traveled to.  We also had our math lesson using tables to solve story problems.  They have a new problem to solve today, for CGI.  We heard from our Top Banana Lidi, she loves horses, dogs, and cats.  she thinks cats are better then dogs.  We learned she was born in Hungary and wishes she could speak it.  She also reported, "I sold my stuffed animals in a yard sale." She used to have nine chickens and we are excited to hear more from Lidi.