May 12 in Room 11

• Tuesday is a music day.
• Students filled out a chart about the author's point of view after they read The Art Lesson," by Tomie dePaola. The story is an autobiographical narrative of the author's experiences as a youngster, and how they still affect him today.
• The teacher continued reading "Because of Winn-Dixie."
• In math class, the students are reviewing regrouping as they prepare to learn three digit regrouping in both adding and subtracting. Today they only carried ones to the tens column in addition.
• Writing about their collections continues as students work to complete a writing sample required for their portfolios for next year.
• New ABCDirection books were distributed, along with a discussion on how these books are to be used. Each child will become an expert on one or two letters, so that as children work their way through the book, they can ask the expert if they do not understand something on a particular page.
• Devin is past 800 in his Thousands Book!