Today we started off with writing. Some of us had to finish up our personal narrative.  This was a story about us.  I can't wait to show you them at conferences.  In math we had short centers.  They were POP!, working with money, books, and counting on by 10s.  For example, if I start at 25, then it's 35,45,55,65,75,85,95.  After lunch, we had language arts.  Today we reviewed some of our sounds and then we took part of our middle of the year benchmarks.  At the end of the day, we explored rocks!  It was so cool.  You should have seen the mess from all of the fun!  Brock even made a spark from two of the rocks.  Briar made a diamond.  Isaac and John broke up a rock into tiny little pieces.  Joe worked on a rock the entire time and not one piece broke off.  Some of ours were really hard to break and some really easy.  We had a lot of sand in our room after we were done.  We had to wear glasses.  I  can't wait to see you all tomorrow!