If you looked in your child's backpack this afternoon and wondered about the cut up paper plate, it was a "fraction pizza." Students were asked to color a pizza with all their favorite toppings. The boys divided their pizzas into fourths and the girls divided theirs into halves. You could continue the fraction lesson by asking your child how much of the pizza remains if you take away a slice. Students have filled up their writing journals so we were happy when new journals arrived today. Students were free to choose what they wrote about, but I asked them to be very deliberate about leaving spaces between words and to use lowercase letters. If you notice your child writing in uppercase letters at home, please encourage them to write "the big kid way" (in lowercase letters).