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Show and Tell: Today Luke brought in a compass to share with the class. He explained that it could be used to help you figure out which way you need to go. He even elaborated what each of the letters stands for (N-north, S-south, etc)

Writer's Workshop: Today we introduced our newest ongoing project which is publishing a piece of informational writing. This writing will contain information about farm animals. Students were given a check-list of things that need to be done in order to publish:
_ Cover
_ Title Page
_ About the Author
_ Dedication
_ Gather Ideas
_ Write Pages
_ Illustrate Pages
_ Share with a Friend
Today we gathered ideas, creating a chart of things that would be appropriate to write about (what animals are used for, what animals look like, what animals sound like, etc.)

Math: We reviewed the hour/minute hands on a clock. Students will be focusing on the hour hand, so during math today the minute hand stayed on the 12 (or the o'clock).. Students used their individual clocks to identify and replicate several different times (3:00, 6:00, and the biggest challenge "move the clock to the time when you go to bed")

Penmanship: We introduced the letter Nn. We created a list of N words which brought up the tricky issue of silent letters (as students brought up such words are gnarly and knee).. After creating the list, students rainbow traced the letter Nn and made their own list on the back with pictures or words.

Library: Today Mrs. Williams read our class Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! and we checked out new books.

Art: After a short slideshow of pictures of flowers, and a small introduction to drawing flowers, students were given the task of creating a work of art with the only instructions (or guidelines) being that it had to contain at least 4 flowers, and that it had to be drawn in crayon. After they completed the drawing we did a watercolor wash which resisted the crayon. They turned out great and will raelly make our classroom festive for the spring season.