Christian was absent today. We hope you feel better, Christian! We will get another new student on Tuesday--Albert! Welcome, Albert! My husband had to use a saw to chop down the sunflower I promised to bring today. The flower was so tall that it wouldn't fit across my backseat. Funny story...It had bugs on it, so I didn't want it sitting in my car overnight so I laid it on the garage floor, behind my car. You guessed it - I backed over it this morning! I brought just the head of the sunflower and each student was able to take home a seed. We learned the letter N, checked to see who had a letter N in their name (11 students did), and fed Sound Muncher pictures of things that start with N. We talked about same and different in math. We looked at all the pictures on our ABC Phonics Chart and tried to find ways in which pictures were the same. For example, someone pointed out that the gorilla, alligator, and monkey are different animals, but they have four legs and a tail. Students drew story problems for fellow students to solve. Ellie was our Star of the Day. She has 5 people in her family, 1 cat, and 2 fish. She likes the color pink and loves to eat Hamburger Helper. Students checked out library books today, which made them very happy and proud. Please remember to return the book any time before next Friday so that your child can check out a book again next Friday. Have a wonderful 3-day weekend! See you on Tuesday!