We played a very challenging math game today called Silent Movement Math. As you've probably already guessed, it was anything but silent, but at least we moved and practiced math. Students walked around the room, to 30 different numbered math problems and recorded answers onto a long answer sheet. They spent from 30 seconds to 1 minute at each math problem, calculating one more, one less, ten more or ten less than a particular number on each of 30 cards taped to the tables. If they recorded an answer beside the wrong number, they really got off track. For those who were really careful, though, it worked well. I should have done this on a day that we had our big buddies, but I still thought it was fun and I think the students enjoyed it. For social studies, we learned about caring for pets. We also talked briefly about the characteristics of mammals, which we'll cover in more detail tomorrow during science. Tomorrow is "tennis shoe Tuesday."