We're loving this weather! It sounds like it will be this nice the rest of the week. It was a little cool in the morning, so I told students to wear a light jacket, but by lunch recess, they really didn't need any jacket. Students sorted words by their ending sound or chunk (__ick or __ock). In social studies we talked about where trash goes after we put it in the garbage can and the importance of reusing and recycling. I showed students a picture of a girl wading in a river in India, who was almost hidden by all the garbage in the water. Yuck! We reviewed what nouns are and in their journals, students could either draw pictures or cut pictures out of a magazine and label a person, a place, and a thing. Students drew a face onto a paper plate so that they will remember that the number part of a clock is called the face. We added hands and some students went so far as to add the numbers, so I quickly had to show them where the numbers belong. We're still only working on telling time to the hour, as that's all that's required in kindergarten. If the majority of students seem ready, we will also learn telling time to the half-hour. We put together a telling time Bingo game and played it in the afternoon. It was a great day!