Today, after Afternoon Work Time and Afternoon Meeting, we celebrated Anna's birthday with her - we sang with LOUD instruments, and then Anna's mom read a book (an "oldie but a goodie" - Mr. Putter and Tabby Pick the Pears). After that, we had Writer's Workshop. Today I taught a mini-lesson about sequencing - making sure that the kids' stories go in (roughly) chronological order. It's a topic that we will return to in the comign days, certainly.

After Writer's Workshop, we had Reader's Workshop. today the kids read out of their bookbags, which have their "just-right" books in them, practicing their reading strategies.

When we finished with reading, we headed up to the computer lab for our time there. When we got back to our classroom, we had just enough time to eat some very yummy lemon mini-cakes that Anna brought for her birthday treat (thanks, Anna!!). Then it was time to pack up and head home.