We missed Gabriel and Mary today, who were absent. I'm still missing a few conference slips--the blue paper that tells me what time you would like to have your conference. Please return them tomorrow so I can begin to make a schedule. Please also let me know whether or not I can show your child's picture on this blog. I will not post your child's photo without your permission.

Anna shared her VIP poster with us this morning and we learned that she has a big family. We've studied each letter of the alphabet, in order, and now we're going back through the alphabet again, only this time we'll spend an entire week on each letter. We're starting with the most frequently used letters. Our letter of the week is R. We fed sound muncher and read "My Rr Book," which students will receive a copy of at the end of the week. We read Mary Wore Her Red Dress and highlighted the word "red."

Our story after lunch was the non-fiction book Living Color. It showed us animals and their colors, discussing the reasons why they are a certain color. For example, did you know that adult dragonflies are red? I had no idea! We learned that red animals are usually poisonous. We won't forget the name of one of the dangerous sea creatures because it shares a classmate's name--the Stonefish!

We began an author study of Eric Carle by reading his book Rooster's Off to See the World. The book is fun because Rooster sets off on an adventure and picks up his animal friends along the way. We noticed lots of patterns in the numbers. For math journals, students wrote the numbers 1, 2, 3 and drew the corresponding number of flowers beside the number.