Picture Day :)

Since everyone was looking their best for Picture Day, I took advantage and we played Photo shoot at recess. The girls were a lot more cooperative than the boys, though the pyramid of boys is SO cute! I couldn't torture them anymore that that one or two shots, they were just itching to play! :) The girls could have gone on and on lol...we had fun.

Some things I have noticed about this group of students...they are very compassionate. They really act protective of eachother, like siblings. They are willing to help one another in an instant. When someone is having a hard time or a rough day, they are showered with lots of hugs and pats on the back and concerned questions. We welcomed a new girl to out class last week, (WELCOME M!!!) And our class rallied together to make her feel welcome and like she was a part of the class family. I am so impressed with the size of the hearts of your children. They are beautiful people!

This is what happens when one of your students gets a hold of your camera, and she doesn't speak much English and you are trying to get her to hand it over...

How big is a foot???

For math class we learned about why we have standard measurement. We read a book about a King who wanted a bed made for his wife the queen. He said it should be six feet by three feet. Well, the apprentice who made the bed was much smaller than the King, so he had much smaller feet, so the bed was much too small for the queen! Now we measure feet with the standard 12 inches per foot, so when someone says, 'the ceiling is 10 feet high' we all know what that means!!! To illustrate we had our tallest student measure six feet by three feet, to see how big the king might have expected the bed to be, and then we had the smallest student measure with her feet, six feet by three feet. As you can see, the smaller bed would have been quite difficult for the queen to sleep in!