George Washington Day

Our theme this week is Presidents. Today we learned all about George Washington. Our word of the day today was "know". It was a rule breaker, because the "k" was silent. The "ow" was a diphthong, like on the snow of -ow. This word is a homonym with the word "no". We call this the "know with your brain". We had library this morning, too. After lunch and recess, Mrs. Myers read the story, Grace For President. We listened for the author's purpose for writing the story. We found four different purposes. Then, we sorted story events that support each purpose. This is something you can ask us after we read at night. Then, it was time for president learning. We used the BookFlix program to hear the story, So You Want to be the President. We worked in groups to remember facts about being the president. Ask me a few. Then, Mrs. Myers showed us a tour of the White House on the internet. It has many special things. Next, Mrs. Myers read us the story, George Washington. We listened for facts to fill in an information sheet. Then, we went to Mrs. Lauber's class and taught them the new facts about George Washington. Tomorrow, Mrs. Lauber's class will teach us facts about Abraham Lincoln. At the end of the day, we had math. We practiced telling time to the hour and half hour. We will be making a human clock, soon. We played a game for the "half hour" times. We had to yell out the hour that we were in! Tomorrow, we will play time BINGO! Mrs. Myers will not be here tomorrow, because she has a doctor's appointment. NO BLOG!