Day 18

I am so excited!  You found my blogsite!!  Pass on the good news.

Today we had inside recess at afternoon recess.  It is fun to see the kids all work as a class on basketball.  They get in a line, each get one ball and stand behind the free throw line (the edge of our reading rug).  They are getting pretty good at one pointers and sometimes get in the hoop.  They are working on positive comments and maybe not tattling quite so much.  I am trying to sort out real complaints from the fun of keeping running bouts of picking at each other.  There is never a dull moment.  Loving one another is complicated when we are dealing with other human beings!!  Look at the person when you say something for or about them and see how your comment made them feel.  We have made alot of progress in knowing what to do.  Now we just have practice actually being nice to each other in different ways.

We are catching on to the teens pretty quickly.  Today we raised our arms when we saw a teen instead of a 1-9 number.  That was so easy I turned the cards over and we identified many pictures of a given amount of animals, like a picture of four otters and moved up to guessing how many I was showing them in ten or more.  They actually got pretty close.  They are amazing me!!

We are going to have a Dr. Fisher,  my dentist come in to talk to the kids next Monday, October 24 from  11:00 to 12:15am.  You are welcome to come and join us if you want.  He talks about teeth and brushing and lots of fun stuff like different animals and their teeth.  We are inviting the 2 and 3 graders to join us.

Can't wait for the field trip to the woods.  I do have to correct what Matt said about what we will be doing in the woods--we won't be hunting, as Gabi thought.  I am so glad we cleared that up at school today!!!Feel free to offer comments of things the kids tell you at home.  You never know when someone will get the wrong idea about something.