Thursday

Today in religion we talked about Advent. We also began talking about the Nativity.
I showed them our class Advent wreath.
In math students are continuing subtraction with renaming. I did show them the -1 trick for subtracting 100's.
ex. 600  -1     599    
   - 158  -1   -157
                     Same answer with no renaming. Students can learn to do this in their heads.

In language arts students took their weekly assessment. They have also been doing some peer editing. Yesterday they read another student's story and corrected spelling and grammar. Today they read a different student's story and made 2 compliments and 1 suggestion for the story. I heard some awesome language,
lots of kind words, and good suggestions.
In social studies we are continuing work on our US timelines.