Today students practiced counting mixed coins. Those who can count by fives and tens had a much easier time with this. With their buddy's help, students used a dictionary to look up the meaning of a new vocabulary word that was from the book The Odious Ogre. In writer's workshop, I'm trying to take students through the entire writing process, from brainstorming topics, to generating ideas, to pre-writing, editing and re-writing a clean copy. This has been VERY difficult. So far only 4 of the 22 students have finished their final copy and some of the more "social" students are still coming up with details. Yikes! The writing standards for next year are going to be far more demanding and I want to prepare them for it.