Mrs. Miller is Back!

This morning we had a special surprise in the classroom. Mrs. Miller is back for her student teaching in our classroom. She will be with us until April 30th. We were all so happy to see her again! We started our day with our Special, Library. After Library we completed our morning work and had our morning meeting. At morning meeting we discussed how cold it was outside and what exactly the wind chill is. We also reviewed the different instruments that meteorologist use to report and predict the weather. Due to the cold, we had indoor recess all day today. Mrs. Miller continued reading The Meanest Doll in the World to us after we gave her a summary of what we have read so far. After that we discussed the qualities of a hero and why we consider Martin Luther King Jr. and Barack Obama to be heroes. We wrote a class diamante poem about Barack Obama. We also learned to play a new game to help us practice long and short vowel sounds and spellings. After lunch we had a lesson on writing number sentences with proper labels from the district's math coach, Mrs. Mumme. Next it was time to talk about maps and globes. We used maps and globes on our desks to complete a Venn diagram comparing the two. Ask me what color is found the most on both the world map and the globe. Why? At the end of the day we watched a Reading Rainbow video of the Steven Kellogg book, Best Friends. After the video we wrote answers to questions about the story and discussed what we saw. Our homework tonight is to study for our spelling test tomorrow. Tomorrow is Day 6. We have Art. Scholastic Book orders are also due tomorrow.