This week in Language Arts, we hit a number of levels! First, we completed our Language Arts MAP assessment, which was really useful. Then, we learned how to use dictionaries!! Yaaaaaasssss. We spent this week practicing alphabetical order, and looking up our spelling words in the dictionary. This became a rather fun sort of activity, as we navigated using the guide words up top to get us close, and then having to find our words on the page. Using dictionaries also helps us hone into the words more directly, and strengthens our ability to focus, because looking words up takes concentration! It was very fun. We also read a short story (the boy who cried wolf) one on one with a teacher, and then wrote a reflective paragraph about it. What a week, woo!

This week in Math, we stepped up our warmup sheet game. Instead of only 3s times tables... our warmup sheets had 2s and 3s on it! Whoa! And so many of us are really clicking in and finding different ways to retain the material. Some of us skip count, some of us remember the song, others just remember the raw data. There are so many ways to know a thing. We also were introduced to the game "Around the World." This is a flash card game that lets us practice our math facts in a game format. We really loved playing this game, and what we allllll learned is that showing up with confidence allows you to perform at your very best! We continued our perimeter work (rectangles and squares!), and graduated to the last level of time- the individual minutes!