Thursday, December 13, 2012

Thursday - Tests and White and Maroon day

We went to the auditorium today so the students could do a quick run-through of their Christmas program. The students did pretty well. We are singing, "I'm Getting Nothing For Christmas," and signing and singing, "Away in a Manger." The children did pretty well. The program will be next Thursday at 1:30 p.m. in the Auditorium.

Today we talked about Coming of Age, meaning a time in your life when you must make a good decision and by making it you grow up, even just a little. The students then wrote a story of a time that they made a good decision, even if it was difficult. Then we played jeopardy to help students study for the reading, spelling and vocabulary tests tomorrow.

In math we studied for our test tomorrow. It will cover the normal things and also include double digit division. We will also have a six times table test. The students have got to put the time in to get these down. I am explaining to the children that doing a division problem is a lot like a video game, you have to guess the best way to go, sometimes you go the wrong way, then you have to back up and try again. The test is tomorrow.

Finally we had a treat for Hannukah, learned the dance Hava Nagilla and danced Mayim too. They did a lot better today and seemed to enjoy it more.

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