This week in Language Arts, we continued working with contractions and singular possessives! Contractions have clicked pretty well with the entire class, and we're ready to add even more to our arsenal. Singular possessive (tricky words to remember!) have been a little challenging, because we have to remember to add the apostrophe s. We're slowly getting the hang of it though! We also spent time practicing our storytelling skills. We read the short story "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," and then we had to write a three paragraph sequel to it in our composition notebooks. So much imagination in the classroom, and wow has our penmanship improved by leaps and bounds since the beginning of the year!

This week in Math, we actually hit a brand new class record! We received our math packets on Tuesday, and by Wednesday, EVERYBODY had finished them! Whoa! Our math minds are on fire! In addition (get it??) to borrowing, carrying, and multiplying, we also went to work on understanding the passage of time. If an event starts at 10, and we arrived 2 hours early... what time did we arrive? Those sorts of time centered word problems challenged our logical minds and helped us build stronger connections with how numbers work. We ALSO hit an all new class record, with the whole class solving six (that's right SIX) word problems in a single day! The expectation was that it would take two days to get through them, but that wasn't the case. While we each had a couple which needed to be revisited the following day, the sheer fact of reading, calculating, and working through six word problems in one day is unprecedented in this class. Mr. Josh and Teacher Rashawn were so proud!