Mrs. Swan taught an interesting lesson on Cree traditions. Students brainstormed what types of traditions they have, such as carving pumpkins for Halloween or eating pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving. We saw a picture of the Cree written language and discussed how different it is from English. After lunch, we looked at a book of Chinese symbols and learned that a single symbol can represent an entire word--very different from English!

Mrs. Hoy, a district reading coach, taught a reading/writing lesson. Students read a poem about foods and interactively wrote the names of some foods. Tomorrow, Mrs. Hoy will be back to help the students compose their own list of favorite foods, which we will compile into a class book.

In math, we made a human number line, reviewed greater than and less than, and counted by 2s, 5s, and 10s. I interviewed our soon-to-be birthday girl, Ellen...