Busy, Busy, Busy

What a busy time of year it's been (so busy, I didn't even get a chance to post on our blog yesterday)! I can't believe that the school year is nearly 20% done already! We are well into the swing of Daily 5, during which I've been able to spend more time meeting with students one-on-one, to assess their strengths/needs in reading. We're also starting to work on our writing a little more (I'm looking forward to sharing some Halloween pumpkin writing they're doing with you soon!), and yesterday, we started working on how to leave good comments on someone else's blog. We were looking at the blog for Mrs. Malkoske's classroom (http://200awesomedays.blogspot.com/) at Dr. Hamilton school, and beginning to comment on some of the neat things they've been doing. With the exception of the pumpkin writing, all of these student activities I've mentioned are things I've never tried in the classroom before - it makes it really busy, but we are all learning so much (me included) that it's totally worth it! We're going to keep on trying these new things, and telling you all about them, so stay tuned...