We had kind of a goofy morning - I managed to convince the picture-taking people to take our pictures first thing in the morning, as opposed to the end of the day, which is when we were signed up (which would have been after lunch, recess, and gym).  So we headed down to get our class picture and individual pictures taken in the Atrium.  When we got back up to our room, we had an abbreviated morning meeting, and Reader's Workshop.  Today in reading we continued our discussion of genre, and all of our kids got to think about and talk about their favorite genres of books to read.  We read a book from one of my favorite genres, mysteries - it was from the High Rise Private Eyes series by Cynthia Rylant.  We read #7, which is The Case of the Baffled Bear.

After reading, we moved on to Writer's Workshop.  This was our last day of fixing and fancying - the kids are ready to read their stories to each other tomorrow at our Writer's Celebration (I'l try to post pics tomorrow afternoon).  The stories are really coming along - they, as you all well know, have plenty of stories to tell!

After writing, we went down to the cafeteria for lunch, and then back up to the room for indoor recess (this rain has got to stop at some point, right?).  When we got indoor recess all cleaned up, we read another chapter in The Wind in the Willows, in which we realized the gruff old badger isn't so gruff at all...

When we finished Read Aloud, we went back downstairs to the gym for class with Mr. Hill and Mr. Peterson.  

After we got back up to our room, we had Math Workshop.  We are still working on what we call "missing addend" problems in addition (like 5+__=9).  Today we used a number line to help our kids visualize the hopping up to a number from another number.  Then we played a game in which they worked in partners with 6 cubes, and one partner hid some of the six, and the other had to figure out how many they had hidden by looking at how many were left.  our end-of-workshop share was about the strategies that they used to solve the problems.

After math, we worked on Social Studies.  We had a nice discussion about ways that first graders are share and take turns at school, and then each kid wrote and illustrated pages in a book about sharing and taking turns (putting examples from school on each page).

After all of that, it was time to pack up and head home!