Today, after Morning Work Time and Morning Meeting, we celebrated Alex's birthday with loud instruments and fun singing. Then, we got to open another Flat Stanley envelope - Julia got a package from Indiana with some fun pictures and information.

Then we played a word game, in which the kids heard a word, and then had to say each sound in the word. When we finished with that, we had Writer's Workshop. Today the kids looked at all of the writing that they had in their folders, and sorted it into two piles - one of work that is "done" and one of work that they still have more to add to. After the sorting, they got busy writing!

When we finished writing, we read a couple of chapters from Invisible Stanley while we ate the yummy cookies that Alex brought for his birthday snack.

The day finished up with our weekly Catalyst lesson in our room with Ms. Bechtel. Today the kids used their very creative minds to make animals that were made up of half of one animal and half of another.

After all of that, it was time to pack up and head home!