I'll do it tomorrow

Everyone is either a Frog or Toad.  I'm a Toad.  Remember in Days with Frog and Toad when Toad looks around his messy house and moans to Frog, "I'll do it tomorrow"?  We started the morning off with this story and did some shared writing with it.  Here is Zoe working on hers.  I love her illustration - you can see Toad's finger sticking up from his cozy bed saying "Tomorrow!"

In the middle of a reading, math, writing, and phonics-filled morning, we finally did our first experiment from our science kit Nonnie and Papaw gave us.  We made a sunset in a test tube and will check our results in the morning.

Another Nonnie and Papaw gift was this set of cubes and cards.  Zoe breezed through the first few...

...but got stumped here and was unconvinced when I told her it wasn't right.  Really?  We came up with a strategy and tried again with better results.

I hesitated to buy Zoe a Tag, but I finally caved and it has been a great purchase.  I got her a set of easy readers and she loves playing with it during rest time and it's helping her with her fluency.  I also found the maps on sale and they love them.  You can learn about countries, states and capitals or learn about landforms, people, and most importantly to our students, music of each region.  Today we just played with the world map but will be breaking out the US one soon.  Zoe asked if she could not do playdoh after school was over but keep using the map.  Um, OK!

I remembered this craft from Speece School and a few other places, so we thought we would give these Borax crystal snowflakes a try after school today.  By tonight, though, I could tell I didn't "measure" it right (and I use that term loosely) so I redid it more carefully and will hope for beautiful snowflakes in the morning.