We started our day with morning work and then morning meeting. Our normal morning meeting routine is: greeting (different each day), weather report, sharing (4-5 students each day), reading and discussing the morning message, poem of the week, math activities with the day of school (today was the 106th day of school!), activity (varies each day) and finally our class pledge. (Ask me to recite the class pledge.) After morning meeting, it was time for Music and then recess. What a beautiful morning!!! After recess Mrs. Miller read more of The Runaway Dolls to us. In the middle of reading, we had a fire drill. During the fire drill we looked at our shadows since it was almost noon. At noon our shadow points north and we found the other directions on the compass using our arms. 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 it was time for writer's workshop. We learned about adjectives and how to use them to make our writing more interesting. Some of us continued to type our "relatives" stories while others illustrated their stories and others wrote in their journals. Now it was time for math. We completed a review exercise for addition with regrouping and we worked in math centers. At the end of the day we read about and discussed President's Day. This year is the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. (Ask me to name 3 things I learned about Abraham Lincoln.) Homework is math - regrouping. Tomorrow is Day 5. We have Library.