Sound muncher (the trash can that we feed word cards to) lost a tooth today so we sang him a lullaby at the end of the day, put his tooth under his pillow, and now we're hoping like crazy that tooth fairies come to schools! I taught a lesson about fairness today. I had a bag of 14 cookies and offered the entire bag to one student and asked the rest of the class how they felt. It was interesting, and impressive, that the student with the bag of cookies said she wasn't happy about having all of the cookies because it made everyone else so unhappy. Good answer! I shared them fairly--one for each student. We talked about if those cookies had been in someone's lunch box. Would they have to share? No--your lunch is yours and you don't HAVE to share them, but you could if you wanted to.

A couple of plants have sprouted!! You can imagine the excitement! We hope that some more have sprouted by morning. Your brilliant children wrote haikus today! Cool, huh? We collaborated on one and then students were given the option of simply copying the one we wrote together, changing only bits and pieces, or starting from scratch. We had a little of each. I will hang them in the hallway. The bake sale is still going on tomorrow and Friday, with baked goods selling from 25 cents to $1 for larger items.