Yippee for Monday!

As far as Mondays go, today went pretty smoothly. We continued to talk about equivalent fractions. I find a really neat website called E is for Explore on Friday. She has come up with some pretty neat lesson ideas. http://eisforexplore.blogspot.com/2012/04/fraction-war.html I downloaded her Fraction War Cards and am pretty excited to use them in math centers this week. I started creating my own fraction bingo today when I realized Lakeshore Learning wanted more money than I was willing to spend. We also started to discuss Common Good and Individual Rights in social studies today with the book Old Henry. The book discusses both topics and has a great rhyming scheme too! We finished up the lesson by writing letters back to Henry pretending to be the Mayor telling him the conditions on which he can return to the town.

Today was also one of my student's 6th birthday! The whole class was invited to her birthday party at Tech City Bowling Alley yesterday. Manetta and I both went. It was both our first time going to a student's birthday. It was pretty fun. It was at least two of our students' first time bowling. I was also delighted to hear that my student loved the birthday present I got her... wooden magnetic dolls like the ones in our classroom. This weekend I discovered the Dollar Tree in White Center it was way bigger than the one in Tukwila thankfully. I found some more goodies there including some stuff for next year!

This past weekend, I also made my very first trip to Half-Priced Books. It was packed there since it was Sunday. I sadly didn't look around too much because I dumbly made a poor shoe choice earlier in the day. I chose to wear my brand new adorable black buckle boots with about a 3-inch heel. I can't walk in high heels for very long before my feet kill so I was miserable! I actually left Joann Fabrics without buying anything! That never happens!I tried to even solve the problem by buying some cheap flip flops from Joann's to wear around the store, but they don't sell them yet. :(