The big word of the day was hemisphere. We were lucky enough to receive Flat Michael yesterday all the way from Seoul, South Korea. We found Korea on our big classroom map, then on a printed map of the world as well as a smaller map of just the Eastern hemisphere. This is the first time the children have heard the term hemisphere. I certainly don't expect them to fully understand it yet, but each time we get a person back we can now talk about where in the world that place is. Flat Michael jetted off today with Mrs. Standish to Toronto where she will be working. How fun for Flat Michael. We also got an email last week of Flat Claudia's visit to NYC. We located New York state and the city on our USA maps today also.
We also learned about stretching a basic sentence today. I am trying to move away from making very silly sentences to sentences that makes sense and is real. The students and I worked together to expand the following sentences: The boy ran. My mom reads. The baby cried. The house sits. The children did a wonderful job.
Also today we reviewed the To, Too and Two page. Many students didn't seem to show this to their parents when it came home two weeks ago. We reviewed it together. We'll continue to work on the differences between the three forms of the word.
Book orders came home last week, so don't forget to place those holiday orders before Friday, Dec. 9 in order to get them back by the winter break.
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