March 30 in Room 11

• John, Jacob, Ryan and Zoe wrote some fine entries in their journals about their Spring Break.
• The class discussed the vocabulary for this week's story, "Jalapeno Bagels."
• Mrs. Craig notices much improvement in the way the second graders play kickball now when she thinks about how they played at the beginning of the year.
• This week's spelling test is made up mostly of contractions. They were introduced today.
• Studying money in math is a very high-interest subject. The students are learning names and values of coins. Because some of this was learned last year, counting groups of coins was fun.
• Students cleaned out their desks and then wrote a paragraph about it. There were some interesting observations made about the contents of some of those desks!