January 23 in Room 11

• The children wrote thoughts about their favorite story in their journals.
• It was a musical day in Room 11 today. Besides music class, Mrs Craig played some Beethoven music and asked the students to make their crayons "dance across the paper" in one continuous motion while they listened. Then they traded drawings and completed a paper about the piece of art, answering these questions, "What does this remind you of?" and "How does it make you feel and why?" It was a really fun activity.
• Spelling final, scores not in yet.
• Math was a hands on project. Students were asked to use cubes to show tens and ones, then combine the ones to reconfigure their groups, placing them in order on math work mats. Because it was a new activity, most of the students were confused, but after trying several examples, many of them understood and became fun. More work of this type is in the offing.
• Mrs. Callery helped students look up a shore bird of their choice on the computer, then print it out. After that, they produced a scientific drawing of their bird, cut it out, and pasted it on the Sandy Beach mural in the front of the room. Not everyone finished this project. More time will be spent on it later.