Monday, March 31, 2008

It's the first day back after Spring Break and the last day of March. We went to the Computer Lab this afternoon.
We put birdseed in our birdseed holders today. The students all liked that!
We worked on letters and numbers. Everyone worked hard, even after being off for a week.
We have new spelling words to practice at home and at school.

It's good to be back to school and routine. We are talking about the calendar. Tomorrow it will be APRIL. Each day we practice handwriting by writing the day of the week. We see if we can remember what day it is, and check the calendar to see what we do in the afternoon. You might use the calendar I send home to preview the day and activity, to count how many days to the weekend, or to count to how many days until a favorite activity.

We read the book "Have you filled a bucket today?" this morning. School wide we practice the concept of "bucket filling," small acts of kindness to others that fills their (invisible) bucket. "Bucket dippers" are those who make us feel bad (bullying) by dipping into our invisible bucket.