A Smattering of Pictures

We usually look for our letter of the week in the morning message. This week is Oo - tricky little bugger. These are the words containing O that we found: boys, good, morning, how, you, overhead, story, okay, love. Do ANY of those make the short o sound? No. No wonder learning to read can be so challenging!
Yesterday we had some visitors: guinea pigs. They were quite a hit. This is the best kind of class pet to have - the kind that comes for half a day and then disappears. No feeding, no cleaning required.
So one of our morning centers was observing the animals and writing or drawing some scientific observations. I think only 2 children decided to draw. Everyone else used solely writing. That's one indication of our proximity to Spring: children are much more confident in their writing abilities (and I can read more of it :)
This student observed: "They like to hide and they can twitch their nose and guinea pigs can eat."

And a few pictures from center time this afternoon:
One student came and asked me, "Miss Vis, can centers be a little bit longer today? Because I need to use the bathroom and I don't want to miss it." Don't worry - we had plenty of time.