The First Three Days

After the first 3 days, my thoughts are what an amazing group! I am SO impressed with all of them.
Today during Math we were working on reading and writing numbers. Everyone was so quick to catch on to writing numbers in expanded from! We wrote them in standard, word, and expanded form all the way to the thousands place. I am looking forward to going all the way to the hundred thousands place next week.
Not only are they a smart bunch, but they are considerate too. Today I shared one of my favorite books, You are Special by Max Lucado. The characters in the book go around giving each other stickers. They give gold star stickers for things seen as good, and gray dot stickers for things viewed as bad. The main character, Punchinello, seems to only be getting dots! He gets really down and out. With some help from Eli, Punchinello realizes that the he shouldn't worry about what others think because he was made special. When he realizes this, his dots begin to fall off. We got into a deep discussion about how we sometimes use our words to give each other stars and dots. Then we connected it to making deposits and withdrawals in a bank account. We have decided that we are going to work on making more deposits than we do withdrawals. What a goal!