Our math groups have been brushing up on their subtraction skills and moving on to more difficult problems. We will be spending a while on these to make sure everybody gets it. In language arts, the children are reading different short stories about school. We have started at the beginning, studying basic sentence structure, making predictions, and we've even started a few creative book projects. I'm glad to see that quiet reading at home and school is working out.
Students seem to be less and less forgetful as the weeks go on.
Now that most students have a few books under their belt, they will be required to write parts of a book review on them for next week's Reader Response Journal. Be on the lookout for specific assignments coming home Monday. Science continues to be a great source of interest for the children. We have been examining what makes a complete circuit. We have also been looking at insulators and conductors.