Day 33

Today's Activities:

• Singapore Math

• Mandarin lesson with Ms. Kitty

• Read Aloud from A Faith Like Mine.

• Reading - We started an inquiry into authors today. We will be exploring who and what authors write about. We started with Patricia Polacco. We read My Ol' Man and The Keeping Quilt and then completed a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting the two texts. Catherine and Chloe also insisted on continuing their Puppy Place books, so each read a chapter to me.

• Social Studies - I feel like most of what we do falls into some strand of the social studies standards. Today, we looked at two websites specifically for their social studies content. Catherine and Chloe read about our nation's presidents on http://millercenter.org/president. Madelyn took some geography quizzes on the National Geographic for Kids website.