Despite the short week I feel like we accomplished a lot in the last three days. We have covered uppercase letters up to K and practiced their formation. We also began practicing writing our names and the date in preparation for signing in each day after the vacation. As part of our calendar routine someone already has the job of graphing the weather while another person records the temperature. This week we added a job of showing the temperature on a large paper thermometer by moving a paper clip to the corresponding number. This will help develop awareness of number sequence and their location on a number line. We also began working on compliments to 10. Recognizing compliments to 10 is a critical component in students facility with numbers. If students can break up any number to ten and put the parts together again with ease, they will be able to work with larger numbers in flexible and powerful ways. We will continue this important work after the vacation.

This morning we read the book Snowballs by Lois Ehlert and worked in small groups to create our own snow people, modeled after those in the book.

Thank you for the gift certificate to Ocha, which is our favorite restaurant in Waterbury. We will enjoy it. Have a joyous and peaceful holiday.