Happy VIP week to Jaelyn! What a beautiful day. We had a busy day and read a lot of books, but I'm having trouble remembering details right now. Let's see...we did a little handwriting practice of our letter of the week, k, and practiced spelling sight words. We read Caps For Sale about a vendor who carried his wares around town on top of his head. The man sold caps and wore them stacked on his head, walking carefully so as to not disturb them. As he slept under a tree, monkeys removed his caps. He awoke to find the caps missing, discovered the monkeys had the caps, and tried to convince the monkeys to give them back. The monkeys merely imitated the man, who got so frustrated that he threw down his own cap, causing the monkeys to throw down their caps. It was an effective technique! I introduced a new math game for centers in which students read a written time and must match a clock with the same time. The first partner to cover all their clocks wins.

The teachers meet tomorrow afternoon to set conference schedules, so if you still haven't returned your green conference form, I will assume you are willing to accept whatever times are not yet taken. In a couple of days you will get your conference time, which you may of course change if you need to.