Our class currently has 21 members. 

   We are working hard to memorize the math facts for the sums up to 10.

   We are solving story problems orally and reading story problems on paper.  Sometimes the stories have our names in them!  Miss Thayer makes us solve math problems in our head.  She calls it "Mental Math".  She says it will help us become great thinkers!

     We are taking spelling tests now.  Every Monday we get two lists of words.  We have to choose one list to learn to spell.  Then every night we do homework to practice learning how to spell the words.  Sometimes we get to spell out words with shaving cream!   Sometimes we write our words in flour or sugar. Sometimes we draw pictures with our spelling words in them.  Soon we will write stories with our spelling words in them, too.

   We have learned about many animals in science this year.  We learned about turkeys at Thanksgiving time.  We learned about deer at Christmas.  In January we learned how animals spend the winter.  Some adapt, some migrate, and some hibernate.  In February we learned about the bald eagle, the national bird of the USA .  As the year goes along, the class will investigate songbirds, animals of the pond, rabbits, and animals endangered in the environment. Science time will help us learn about weather, the sun and seasons, and motion and force during the spring.

    In Social Studies we have learned how the lives of many famous people have influenced the ways we live and operate in the great country of the United States of America. Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Thomas Jefferson are just a few whom we have studied.  We will be reading more about African American heroes and influential women leaders as the year continues.  In September we learned about our country's rules, the Constitution. In October  we learned how Columbus found a new world.  In November, we learned what it would be like to be a Pilgrim girl or boy and a Wampanoag Native girl or boy.  In February, we made time lines and comparison charts to show  how living has changed from 1776 to 2009. We had a classroom election in November, and predicted the win of Barack Obama as our next President.