We did an estimation activity today in which the student with the closest guess won the prize, which was a container of gum. There were 61 pieces and Luciana guessed the EXACT number! Way to go, Luciana! This week I've been writing messages on the easel with mistakes and students take turns to correct one mistake at a time. I've done things like start a sentence with a lowercase letter, put a period in the middle of a sentence, use uppercase letters randomly in words, etc. On Monday, many students had a difficult time identifying the mistakes, but they did better today.

In science, we did a short introduction to "parts of a plant." Mrs. Swanson already taught a lesson on what plants need, and when I showed the class words to a song about what plants need, they quickly noticed a missing "need" -- space! Plants need space in order to grow. They're so smart.