Today, after Center Time and Afternoon Meeting, we read Iris' Star of the Week poster (great job, Iris). She wrote hers in Spanish, so she gave us a nice Spanish lesson, and the many of the kids knew a number of the words before we translated them!

After the poster, we worked on making "R Books" that the kids can read at home, to practice our phonics sound for the week. We then learned a new song - We're Going to the Zoo. It has one of our sight words in it (see), which we will talk about tomorrow. It was a fun song, and the kids got to sing along as I played the guitar.

After the song, we practiced reading with our "just right" books - each student has a book bag with 4 books that are at their independent reading level. We are working on the skill of "reading silently" as well as reading strategies.

then, it was time for Choice Time, and Cosette, Owen, and Jack were at the Take-Apart Center with Adele's mom -- Cosette took apart a mixer, and Owen and Jack demolished a DVD player.

P.S. Keep the junk coming for the Take Apart Center - if it doesn;t work anymore, we can take it apart (except for TVs and computer monitors, which have mercury in them).

P.P.S. Don't forget that tomorrow is ice skating at Lynhurst Park (12:55 - 1:50). Meet us in the gym or in the warming room at Lynnhurst if you can -- it will be super fun!