In just a week, two students, Miya and Lacey, have moved. We now have 20 students. It is always sad to lose members of your community, and our classroom is a community.
The students have seemed especially tired (or as today’s Word of the Day said “weary”) on Mondays. There are many heads down on desks and unmotivated learners. Is your child getting to bed early enough (8 p.m. ish) on most school nights, especially on Sunday nights?
We have begun having social studies and science lessons every day but Tuesday. That means more social studies and science learning but less read aloud, writing time, grammar time, cursive handwriting time, etc. We really could use a longer school day (can’t believe I am advocating for that!).
We have been talking a bit about the upcoming Inauguration. The students got to pretend to be a reporter, interviewing Barack Obama after the Inauguration and also brainstormed goals for the new President and good wishes for his family and him. I have encouraged the students to bring in newspaper or copies of Internet articles about the Inauguration (just like they did during the Olympics and the election).
