Friday, April 5

TGIF! We tried to complete our Yahtzee tournament today without success--only a few more games to play and we'll have a Yahtzee Champion! I guess double elimination makes it longer than I thought. While we were waiting on our game or if we had been eliminated, we were working on angles and geometry. It's amazing to me that although I KNOW that I taught something this year, some kiddos acted like they had never seen this information before in their lives. I'm so glad that we have these couple weeks to review! In Read Aloud, Ernie was able to finally see Wrigley Field! He also got an autographed baseball. That is until the security guards caught up to him and hauled him away. I wonder how the two parts will end up connecting... In Reader's Workshop, we read, finished up any work that hadn't been completed from workboard and worked on vocabulary with Hink Pinks. Ask your child what a "person who chooses the best chocolate" is called. We continued our spelling focus in Writer's Workshop with some playing spelling games and others free writing. We ended our fabulous day with Science and setting up an experiment to show chemical change. We also hypothesized some ways to shine up a penny. I'll be trying them out and taking pictures this weekend so if your child asks for ketchup and a dirty penny (ketchup was a suggestion by someone) they might be experimenting themselves. How cool!!