Since I’ve got the time today! 🙂

First I completely forgot to blog post yesterday! I understand about the math lesson and it’s disaster! Thanks to the parents who brought it to my attention. When we practiced and I worked with them on problems they were “adding” but then some of the gear problems wanted them to subtract. By that point they were doing it independently. Eureka was using the word fewer in multiple problems and the kids were getting confused and not reading the whole problems. I realized yesterday when I saw the first email but we skipped math Wednesday because we had to do the valentines crafts instead. We are ahead in math so next week we will spend 2 days re-doing some problems and practicing more from lessons 3 and 4 before moving on. I had already printed additional practice problems yesterday before we left at the end of the day.

The students all know we are taking the spelling test tomorrow to finish this weeks benchmark up. Lots of conversations about our story and being nice. This week has been about kindness with valentines day so they matched perfectly. Yesterday afternoon we did an activity with filling in hearts with describing words for our friends and they each got to fill out everyone else’s book! It was so cool and I can’t wait for you to see them on Friday! I looked through them last night as I was adding my finishing touches on the project. It was super cool to see some of the creative things they wrote about each other. <3

We made valentines for our special education buddy classroom! On Friday we will deliver them! They each cut out the heart, wrote happy valentines day, and drew pictures. They are SO EXCITED to pass them out to them! (A lot of these students have allergies so we couldn’t just add them into our counts with what they brought from home even though I thought about it…. I did not want to give them things they potentially could not have and then it have to be taken away)

Not only did we work on writing about each other we also worked on some self love- This was titled a sweetheart activity. Thinking and writing about things we LOVE about ourselves. They are hanging in the hallway for all to see but I couldn’t help snapping a pic to post for you all to see as well. (I will put the picture at the bottom of this post).

Unfortunately with WIDA testing I wasn’t able to teach science and social studies this week. They seemed to pull each afternoon to complete that testing and its super hard to teach with so many gone! We will just push those lessons to next week because everyone is officially done with the wida test now for second grade.

Remember— If you haven’t sent in valentines yet you need to on Friday! We pass them out!

Also ——send in popcorn money in folders if you want to buy some! $1 per bag. They will be passed out at dismissal.

I will see all my friends bright and early Friday morning! We have the spelling test then off to the Micheal Berry side to play and learn with the high school students wanting to become Dental hygienists.

Enjoy your snow day!