Tomorrow I have a follow up class for a course I took this summer so I will not be in school. I talked to the class about having a substitute and what the day will look like. Emily will be with them all day as well.

The class is focused on inquiry science, with a big emphasis on science notebooks and discussions. We have already started working in our science notebooks and this morning we had a fantastic discussion about what our caterpillars need to survive. It led to several great questions that we will begin to investigate on Friday or next week: is milkweed alive, and does the milkweed last longer if it is in dirt compared to when it has been cut and is in our butterfly house.

We also had a fantastic session of Writer's Workshop today. The children are really becoming engaged in the writing process and are eager to share what they write with the class. Several students shared stories today that didn't have words, but when they shared they read them like books. One of the was about a "hideous alien monster", another about a giant t-rex, and one about a group of patterned butterflies flying into the blue sky overhead. This is definitely a group of writers with lots of stories to tell! It is very exciting.