November 19 in Room 11

• The placemats for our feast are colored and complete.
• The most difficult skill at the swimming pool is learning how to walk on the pool deck and in the dressing room.
• Our spelling pre-test produced ten gum chewers today! Wow! Spencer, Logan, Zoe, Devin, John, Jonathan, Ryan, Meagan, Dylan and Jacob. It's the largest number we've ever had.
• Before school started today, a big truck drove over our playground and dumped a load of new cedar chips under the play equipment. This brought about loud cheers and rambunciousness, setting the tone for the morning. Now the playground smells like the deep woods.
• Trinity's puppy visited before school today.
• Babe played with The kids at recess today. She wants all the second graders to move to her house and live in her kennel with her.
• We are still working on grouping tens and ones during math class. Today our papers were colored according to which numbers were in the tens place and which numbers were in the ones place. If the bouquet of flowers looked odd, students usually checked their work. It was a good method for self correction.
• Students will be attending the feast on Friday as Native Americans or Pilgrims, so we spent some time this afternoon crafting appropriate headgear. While we worked, we practices songs for the Christmas concert.