January 5 in Room 11

• Tyler arrived today with two big changes in his life. He is moving to Portland, and he broke his arm. His classmates busily signed his cast. We will surely miss him.
• Our day began with P.E. What a terrific way to start the new year!
• A new boy joined us today. Adolpho and Krissy knew each other from their old school!
• Ones, tens and hundreds were the stars of the math show. Students manipulated blocks of blue cardboard to demonstrate their knowledge of place value concepts.
• Families will have a chance to purchase new books at a very low price through the Scholastic Book order form that went home today. Orders must be returned with a check by January 15.
• Students also brought home their spelling lists today.
• In Reading, they listened to a story about a fire station and firefighters.
• Mrs. Stebbins asked the class to imagine what it would be like to live on the communications satellite they created, if it were really in space. Students will be thinking and writing about this subject all this week.
• Students will be experimenting with independently folding and cutting snowflakes as part of the bin project this week.