Today, after Center Time and Morning Meeting, we read a book for our Reading Lesson. We did what is called an Interactive Read-Aloud, in which I ask the students focused and planned questions about the text (The Quiltmaker's Gift) as we are reading. Our focus today was on comprehension (ask your child what the book was about (keeping in mind that we only read half of it today).

After reading, we headed to the gym for class with Mr. Hill and Mr. Peterson. The kids did not go outside for obvious (BRRRRRRRRRR!!) reasons. The sledding excursion will be rescheduled, I'm sure. I'll keep you posted. Instead, they got to go bowling in the gym -- ask them how many strikes and spares they picked up!

After gym, we met a new High Friend in phonics -- Uncle Up, who introduced the short /u/ sound (as in "up"). We also talked about word families that use the short /u/ sound, such as words that end in -up and -ut.

After all of that, we had Choice Time.

Then we bundled up and headed home.

Stay warm!!