March 4 in Room 11

• Here's a joke that can only be told on this day: "Did you hear about the big parade?" "What parade?" ""All the calendars march forth!" Not many second graders understand the humor. It was used to teach homonyms. This joke is in the same category as "What time do you have to go to the dentist?" "Tooth-hurty."
• A new girl joined our class today. Her name is Samantha. Welcome, Samantha!
• The students finally got to eat their cake today! It was good and chocolaty.
• Before eating cake, second graders had to describe their piece of cake and make a scientific drawing of it.
• The class did more work on borrowing in math.
• For bellwork this morning, the students practiced proofreading.
• Dodge ball in P.E. It's everybody's favorite.
• The pre-spelling test produced these gum-chewers: Riley, Teron, Adolfo, Trinity, Garrett, Jonathan, Logan, Kelsey, Zoe, Devin, and Meagan.
• The teacher read Yertle the Turtle this morning. Now the class is painting paper plates green in order to make a stacking turtle.