Courtney, Centers, Recorders...and the Carnival is Friday!

Today being Wednesday, we had the treat of Courtney coming to read Poppy and Rye to us. We were just finishing up some geography review when she came in and so she started asking us some questions too. Courtney is just part of Room 8...and that's just how we like it!

We started a round of math centers today. We have 4 centers: I'm working on division - one group was dividing something like 49,563 divided by 61! Mrs. V is working on horseshoe factoring. Ms. van Ark played a game called 'The Remainder Game' which they play in partners. The number of spaces you move on the gameboard is determined by the remainder from a division problem you solve. We had Joshua's mom volunteer in our class today (and tomorrow) and she ran another group. This group analyzed word problems and then she was right there with them while they worked. I love centers and I do believe Room 8 does too!

Today was also our music day. Room 8 was SO EXCITED because they knew they were getting their RECORDERS today...which they did.




Just a reminder: The school carnival is Friday from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. If you buy tickets tomorrow after school, for $5 you can get 15 tickets. If you wait until the carnival, they are 2 tickets for $1.