I introduced two new centers today. In one, students must spell their classmates' names. In the other, students sort plastic Halloween toys. They can sort by color or by type of object (spiders, bats, etc.). As a class, we graphed colored cubes and then students did the same thing independently. In sign language, both classes worked together to perform "Five Little Pumpkins." Mrs. Hanson videotaped them and then we watched their performance. I will try to post the video this week. Students were asked to write about what they do before they go to sleep. I was hoping to read such things as, "I brush my teeth." "I listen to a story." or something similar. Instead, most students simply copied my example sentence. In science, we discussed the characteristics of living things.