Thursday, January 3, 2008

Today was our first day of school in 2008! Since it was our first day back, Ms. Stern told us that she expects everyone to be experts at following the rules. She is going to be looking for evidence of a Charlie Caps class! Now that it is January, Ms. Stern no longer ties children’s shoes. Everyone should know or be learning how to tie shoelaces, know how to zipper coats and jackets, and know our addresses and phone numbers!

This morning Ashley lost her tooth. This is her seventh tooth that has come out! Earlier in the day, she wrote how her tooth was really wiggly and her mom said it would come out in three more days. Ashley’s tooth didn’t want to wait that long!

Madison S., Julia, and Cassie were the first people to use their coupons to have lunch with Ms. Stern. They ate together on the rug and chatted while the rest of the class was in the cafeteria. Everyone had a great time!

We had P.E. today. We used a big parachute. Justin went in the middle while a bunch of balls flew in the air. He was able to catch 8 of them! Lily also got to go in the middle. She caught 6 balls.

Ms. Stern read the book, A Bad Case of Stripes, by David Shannon to us. It is about a girl named Camilla who got stripes all over her body because she didn’t eat lima beans (since other children didn’t like them). Her condition got worse and worse. The cure to turn her back to normal was to eat the lima beans. After she finished reading, Ms. Stern asked the class to turn and talk to a partner to retell the story, including the names of the characters, the setting, and the important parts at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end. We are practicing retelling during partnerships as well (because good readers are good at retelling and remembering what they read).