Thursday, February 14

Happy Valentine's Day! In Math, we found the perimeter, area and volume of our boxes and then we decorated them. They did a pretty good job but will obviously need more instruction and practice which we will do soon. Instead of Read Aloud, we passed out valentines. The students then read them and were able to eat 2 things. This made for a sugar high of an afternoon! In Reader's Workshop, we read a story about Valentine's Day and then did some vocabulary with some of the words associated with the holiday. We also read a poem about a Clockatoo--this was quite a bit more challenging but students should now understand what a cockatoo is as well as understanding what weep, punctual and plight mean. We also took a trip to the book fair for some to purchase books. In Social Studies, we talked about the changes in transportation that happened in the 1800's, now that Ohio is a state and the population began increasing.