And what a fantastic couple of days it was! My class is stacked with a good bunch of kids, which makes me all the more excited for this year. We all now know the policies and procedures of the classroom and school. We've seen it all in action and know how it all works. We're bright and ready to come in full steam next week.
Next week we start almost full bore, minus library and computer specialists. We're going to break into our Basal reader with the first story of the book, "The Best School Year Ever". The first week of math is a lot of review of basic concepts from last year: place value, exponents, estimating sums, differences, products and quotients, and order of operation. We are going to begin a class read aloud of "Bridge to Terabithia" which I'm sure is going to be a heart wrenching way to teach the kids the power of friendship. Finally, during science we are going to begin exploring the scientific method and different methods of measurement in the metric system.
I would like to thank all of the parents for the outpouring of support. The supplies we had donated for our classroom will be put to good use. Thanks you so much for all that you've done so far and all that you are willing to do in the future.
Mr. Pratt
Quote of the week:
"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands." -Michelangelo
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