We're finally back at school! This morning for reading we did some review. We practiced our high frequency words with flashcards. We practiced contractions. We acted out in groups our vocabulary words. This was fun! We also practiced the main idea by listening to mini stories and picking out the main idea. Last, we colored Stevie the Melting Snowman and had to put him in melting order. We started our middle of the year benchmark reading test. We will do this a little bit each day until the end of the week. In art today we made our own little monsters. We read the story "Love Monster" and created our own unique monsters using only pencil and a black marker. We had library and music. After our specialists we had science. In science today we did an experiment where we felt sand, clay, and humus. We felt them when they were dry and when they were wet. Our day ended with math. In math we worked in small groups and figured out story problems that our classmates wrote. I am excited to see your beautiful faces tomorrow!