Today, after Afternoon Work Time and Afternoon Meeting, we had a reading lesson - the kids learned two more reading strategies in the mini-lesson that I taught. they learned how to look for hidden words in tricky words (like finding car and pen in carpenter), and they also learned to take off a "magic ending" (like -ed, -er, -ing), read the word, and then put the ending back on. Both are variations of the "chunk and chew" strategy that they already know.

After reading, Ms. Bechtel came for our weekly Catalyst lesson , and then we wrote again. The kids finished up the writing that they worked on yesterday, and we will start to use them to make a book later in the week.

After we finished our writing, we took a vote - either to have Choice Time inside, or go out to play on the playground. Needless to say, outside won - and, as an added surprise, both Mr. Wold and Ms. Risdall had the the same idea. 75 kindergartners on the playground at the same time!!!

After that, it was time to head home!!