November 3 in Room 11

• With the combination of shifting of Daylight Savings Time, Halloween partying and its accompanying sugar highs and lows, the serious arrival of rain over the weekend and a plain old Monday morning, there were a lot of very tired, cranky children in school today. Whew!
• The first thing we did in the morning was to write in our journals about our favorite animals. some students wrote about real animals, others wrote about imaginary ones.
• In keeping with the animal theme, in P.E. we played Run, Octopus, Run.
• As we read James and the Giant Peach, we hear that James has discovered some giagantic, friendly insects. The new vacabulary words for Around the Pond are banks, crator, edge, moss path, and shallow
• As the winter holidays approach, the second graders discussed some facts and fictions about Thanksgiving.
• In writing we finished writing a story about a coat left behind by a Halloween ghost.
• Measuring a drawing of a house with twelve-inch rulers took up our math time.