April 13 in Room 11

• The class listened to the week's Reading story, Thunder Cake, and previewed the vocabulary words.
• Current P.E. hit? Underwater Freeze Tag!
• The teacher taught a lesson on base words and endings (sit+ ting= sitting, pin+ned = pinned).
• Many of the spelling words for the week are base word and ending combinations.
• The math facts in Mad Minute are getting harder.
• Students still need work on money counting. They were asked to show two different ways to make the same amount of money. For example, sixty seven cents can be six dimes and seven pennies as well as two quarters, a dime, a nickle and two pennies.
• Second graders will be giving "formal" speeches beginning next week. They haven't realized it, but "Show and Tell," and their description of their Space Communication Satellite in front of the class were both "speeches." Students have papers to take home with the directions of what is expected for their speech project so that their parents can suggest and encourage their children at home.
• The teacher went over the writing scoring guide for the class. The children are very interested in how they got their scores and why. The class will be working on more writing, so everyone will catch on in time.
• Tomorrow the class will be writing a paragraph about the marathon program at Hillcrest, using the foursquare they did on Friday.
• Also tomorrow: Beach hopper study!