April 7 in Room 11

• Mrs. Nelson assigned seats in music class. Then the children learned the "Bunny Hop."
• The class divided up into different groups for Readers' Theater presentations. Some groups were more dramatic than others, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears was especially theatrical.
• Students reminded Mrs. Craig that they needed to do their math "Mad Minute" today. Not only are they getting better at math, they are becoming more responsible about their own learning, too!
• The second grade continues to learn more about money. Today they were given choices of things to buy and they had to figure out how much money they needed.
• Mrs. Haney taught about trees in Room 11. She talked about the life cycle of a tree, taking students on a journey through the stages of a tree's life: seed, sprout, sapling, adult, old growth, snag, fallen log and dirt, good rich dirt in which a seed can grow...
• The class wrote an "eight-square" summary of the life cycle of a tree, beginning with a title and topic sentence, then adding the stages as details.
• As everyone prepared to go home, the class played a game of adding up coins. If the person called on had the right answer, he/she got a Hill Bill!
• Most of the enrichment groups have finished studying Dr. Martin Luther King in the Weekly Reader and taking a Senteo test on the information. A Senteo test is given by posting questions on the Smart Board and having students equipped with "clickers" register their answers remotely.