I shouldn't wait until the evening to post what we did in class today--I can't remember!!! We welcomed Angelena and showed her the ropes. We read some familiar stories, including Bad Dog Marley and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, and identified the characters.

The building lost power for about 40 minutes after lunch. We remained calm, opened the blinds and kept working. The students handled it very well. In math, students cut apart some number cards (0-11). I asked them to line up the numbers 0-5 in proper order and then I gave them cubes and asked them to count out the correct number of cubes and stack them above each number. After a quick demonstration of what I wanted, everyone was able to do this. Students were able to identify the stair step effect of adding one cube to each stack.