We made pretty peacocks for our letter P day. We also played a game in which students popped up like popcorn when they heard a letter in their name. Students underlined Ps in a poem called Popcorn. For writer's workshop, students drew pictures of at least 3 things that begin with P and copied the words off the board.

Students checked out library books today. At story time, I read The Day the Teacher Went Bananas about a mix-up in which a substitute teacher is sent to the zoo and a gorilla is sent to a school. In math, students made a real graph by standing in columns. Today, we had more boys than girls. We also compared sets of objects. Students drew lines from each object in one set to an object in another set to see which had more objects.

I went to a training tonight to learn about a piece of equipment that turns an ordinary whiteboard into a Smart board. I am excited about trying it at school soon.