I'm back! (I felt lost not posting to the blog last night.) If you've looked in your child's backpack, we've found the Monday envelope. Yes, I know it's Tuesday, but I guess the substitute was overwhelmed yesterday. My apologies for being late. In the envelope is a green form on which you'll request the best time to meet for your child's conference. Please return it as soon as possible to ensure that you get the date and time you want. There was also a packet of papers with a bunch of stars on the cover. This was our old speed reading test. You can keep it or throw it away--we have a new one in class. I sent it home because I know some of the students will want to do 1-minute timings at home.

The three vocabulary words introduced today were: embarrassed, concerned, and warn. Two of them went right along with our social skills lesson, in which we learned to read facial cues for the emotions surprised, scared, and disgusted. Although it was Dr. Seuss's birthday, we continued to read books by author/illustrator Nancy Carlson. Students noticed similarities between several books.