This morning, after guided reading Ms. Douglas was our teacher. We practiced re-telling the story "The Mitten" in our own words using our mitten and our animals. At the end we came back to the carpet and some groups performed their own version of the story for our class. Next time, Ms. Douglas said we are going to use instruments to add sound effects and music to the story.
In mathlympics we had our second day of competition. Before we started Ms. Boyer talked to us about a problem she noticed yesterday. She noticed that a lot of us were forgetting to read the competition instructions before we began and it meant we were making silly mistakes and were missing out on getting our medals. Our goal for today was to make sure we read all the instructions before we started.
This afternoon we did our animal research. We worked on our appearance research about our animals. Some of us worked in groups with other people who are studying the same animal. Other people chose to work by themselves. Before we started, Ms. Boyer talked to us about using the table of contents and the index to help us find pages in our books that would teach us about appearance.
In gym Mrs. Wilkens was our teacher because Ms. Boyer had a meeting. We practiced some more tennis. We practiced our underhand serves and we practiced controlling the ball on our racquet to improve our hand-eye coordination.
Our helper tomorrow is: Lawrence
