Today in Language, we continued to demonstrate our comprehension of the novel "Matilda."  We had to use our inferencing skills to answer questions we had about the text.  Ask me how I know that the distance between Ms. Honey's cottage and the school is not that great.  I also had to recall the different feelings Matilda was experiencing when she experienced her miracles.

In French we learned various sentences about how to say, "Can I......"  Ask me how to say, Can I go to the bathroom? and Can I go to the library in French?

We reviewed estimation and rounding in math.  We learned how we can use these skills to see if answers to our addition and subtraction equations are accurate.  We will continue to work on both addition and subtraction with regrouping.  Please review your basic addition and subtraction facts nightly.

We will be creating both percussion and wind instruments in science.  We will need various items from home to build our projects.  If you have any extra of the following, we would appreciate if you could send any with your students.
-boxes
-cardboard
-elastics
-string
-paper towel tubes
-spoons
-empty yogurt containers
-empty and clean plastic bottles
-straws

Thanks for your support with these items.  The instruments the students create need to make sound, change pitch and volume.