Smile... :)

I love school picture day! The kids all look so beautiful/handsome!

This crazy Thursday didn't seem as crazy, even with adding getting our pictures taken to our day. We had an odds and ends kind of meeting. We read, Little Oh, a book about an origami doll. It was good but the real reason for reading it was because next Thursday, we're going to have our first get together with our vertical team and are all reading this book and then doing some origami! Then, our student council nominees read their "speeches" and we voted. In Wonder, Auggie and the family went to Via's play and were surprised to see Via as the lead role! (She was supposed to be the understudy.) Then, after our pictures, we created our own precepts: principles to live by. We only had time, then, to read independently and the library was unfortunately closed. After a sweltering recess and quiet time, I gave the Unit 1 post-tests back to the kids. We still need practice with rounding, subtraction and 10x more... so, as we work on multiplication and division, in our next unit, we'll continue to work on those skills. Please don't over worry about your child's score. We'll get there! Then, we started on multiplication and WHAT it is. They all wanted to give me the answer, however, I was focused on WHAT multiplication is. So, we looked at 8 x 3 and came up with 7 different ways to represent it. We also tried to do some on our own and then tried some application of basic facts in relation to donuts. :) Keep your kiddo practicing those facts! We ended our day with a Quizizz that Kyler made with basic facts.