Hi everybody!

This week is going to be a bit of a hodge podge.  We will start the week off with a mini-unit on Cinco de mayo.  Did you know it is not Mexican Independence Day?  Then we will go back to work on the mini-essays students began last week with the substitute.  We will also be doing our daily class starters: free reading, and dictations.  With the heavy emphasis on writing this week, we will not be doing a free writing assignment, but look for those next week.

On the topic of the free writing assignments, these will be given one grade based on each student's personal improvement.  They are not graded against each other at all.

I got some new books for our class library this weekend!  We got several new novice and intermediate level books, which should help round out students' reading choices a little bit.  I am personally most excited about the Magic Schoolbus book :)