George Washington's Birthday

We had a great day for our first day back after the long break! The children were excited, yet focused and we got quite a bit of both Monday and Tuesday work done. Plus we got to learn about George Washington. We talked about how he would have been 279 years old today! We read a story about how he returned the British General's dog to him when the colonists found the dog after a long battle. At the end of this children's story, the author had a picture of George Washington's actual letter to General Howe that was written by Alexander Hamilton. At the end of the day we read another story about a boy named George W. Allen who was also born on Feb. 22nd and loved to learn everything about George Washington including what he had for breakfast. Tomorrow I will finish the story and we will have Indian Hoecakes (a kind of cornmeal pancake cooked on a griddle rather than a hoe).

This week is also I LOVE TO READ week, so we read the Reading series story One Little Mouse to make it 3 books in one day!!! I really do love to read to the children, it's one of my FAVORITE things to do. Sometime this week Mrs. Leffler a 3rd grade teacher will come read a favorite book of hers to our class, and I will go read one of my favorites to her class.

LIBRARY IS TOMORROW!

We had most of our Tuesday show and tell people absent today, so tomorrow we will do Tues. and Wed show and tells. Remember it needs to start with a blend. gr,cr,br, bl, cl, sl, sw, sp, etc.

In Math we had a fun DINO-TIME book and mainly focused on positions of the hands on the hour and half hour.

____ o'clock (longer hand on the 12/ the smaller hand is on the ___) or

___thirty (when the longer hand is on the 6/the small hand is between that number and the number that is one higher than it)

That's all for now folks!

Mrs. Clapper