It's Chinese New Year - Gung Hey Fat Choy!

We started our day with our Special, Library. Following Library we completed our morning work and gathered from Morning Meeting. At Morning Meeting we greeted each other with, "Gung Hey Fat Choy" as we began our celebration of Chinese New Year. (Ask me how long Chinese New Year lasts) Also during meeting, the purple group shared, we read our poem for the cycle, we talked about today's weather and we completed patterns with the calendar. Can you believe it is the 95th day of school? After Morning Meeting we had an indoor morning recess. After recess, Mrs. Miller read more of The Meanest Doll in the World to Us. Next it was time for reading groups. Mrs. Peckmann met with the books and letters groups and Mrs. Miller met with the newspapers group. After lunch we read a book or our choice. After that we took a look at Chinese New Year. Mrs. Peckmann read a book to us called Lion Dancer. (Ask me to retell the major events in the book.) We looked at the animals of the Chinese Horoscope and found the animal for the year of our birth. (Ask me what animal represents 2009.) In math we took a graphing assessment. At the end of the day Mrs. Miller presented a lesson on using directions words to describe where objects are in our classroom. We worked with a partner and described where it was in the classroom using direction words. Our partner needed to guess wha the object was based on our directions. We also make a key for our classroom map. Homework tonight is Jumpstart 5 and to study for a Spelling Test. Tomorrow is Day 6. We have Art.