February 3 in Room 11

• Music, music, music!
• Mrs. Craig has arranged a display on the table in the front of the room with pictures and books about ants and the way they live. Soon our class will be getting an ant farm. Then everyone will be able to watch live ants in action!
• The second graders got something new to go with their reading this morning: a crossword puzzle with vocabulary and spelling words. Its a new skill for them to learn.
• In math, as the children learn to move the regrouped ten over to the ten's place, the helpful little box above the other tens has disappeared! Now they must carry their regrouped tens over with no reminders. This development did not seem to faze them.
• Mr. Dunn taught a lesson about tides. He had the class play a game outside. First students sat in a circle. Mr. Dunn held the "moon." Then, as he walked around the outside of the circle, students stood up as he moved close to them and stoop as the moon traveled away around the circle. After that demonstration, the class stood on the hill outside of school and looked at the mud flats which were visible because of the low tide.
• Babe came to school today.