Treasure Hunting

Our word of the day today was "went". It was a rule follower, because all the words said their own sound. There was a consonant ending blend "nt" in the word. This word was a verb. We added words to the "tent of -ent". Don't confuse this word with "when" or "want". Lots of us worked during morning meeting with Mrs. Bashada on math skills today. After recess, we had music class. After lunch, Mrs. Myers had us brainstorm questions that we could have answered in a nonfiction book about pirates. After we had a list of questions to focus our listening, we read Pirates, Robbers of the Seas and Pirates Don't Take Bathes. Then, we gave the answers for the questions on the list. After that, we had our fourth center for the week. We also worked on our pirate rebus and glossary project. Then, we went to work on writing our pirate treasure hunt stories and maps. We are getting finished. Later in our writing time, Mrs. Blake and Mrs. Minkin came to our classroom to help us write letters to the solders in Iraq. We started our Overboard spelling game, but ran out of time. We will finish our game tomorrow at morning meeting. At the end of the day, we had pirate math! Mrs. Myers made a pirate treasure hunt. We had to find the chest around the room using clues and our north, south, east, and west directions. In each chest, there was money. We had to count the money. Mrs. Myers helped us add up the money for each chest by doing double and triple digit addition. At the end of our treasure hunt, we had found $1,006.59. We were so excited! Too bad the money wasn't real! We would've been rich!