We started our day with morning work and our Special for today - Library. Following Library we completed our morning work and had our morning meeting. We continued to talk about units of measurement and estimating measurements during morning meeting. Ask me about the types of objects I should measure in inches, feet or yards. After morning meeting we had indoor recess because it was sleeting outside. After recess Mrs. Peckmann began reading The Meanest Doll in the World, our new read aloud. It is the sequel to the book The Doll People. Ask me about the setting and some of the characters in the book. Next it was time for reading groups. Mrs. Peckmann met with the Magazines and Internet groups today. All of the groups are reading nonfiction books and are learning how to summarize nonfiction texts. After lunch we estimated and measured many objects in the classroom in feet. We are getting much better at estimates! After that it was time to talk about the New Year. We took part in a sentence writing activity using nouns that are associated with traditions of the new year in the United States. Ask me about the whole unit in my binder. At the end of the day we used the Smartboard to learn about natural resources (air, land and water) and we can conserve each of these resources each day. Our homework tonight is "Nouns." Tomorrow is Day 6. We have Art.