I'm sure that everyone has heard that we spent most of the week in the French room due to a broken heater (thanks to Emily Smith for letting us use her space).  The children handled this change beautifully and in many ways it was a fun adventure.  Despite the disruption we had a very productive week.  Still, it will be a relief to be back in our own room on Tuesday!  

We have been using a new checklist when we finish pieces of writing.  This has helped build awareness of writing conventions, especially leaving spaces between words and using lower case letters except at the beginning of a sentence or for names.  Children really want to check "yes" for each section of the checklist and they seem to be paying more attention to these conventions.

In math we have been spending  time working on sequencing numbers.   Some of the skills we have been practicing include identifying the number that comes just before or just after a given number, sequencing teen numbers, and crossing the decade (29 to 30, 39 to 40 etc.) as we count to 100.

Math games that involve sequencing numbers.