November! We need cereal boxes!

Hello,
I hope you guys are enjoying the long weekend we have! I have filled it catching up on all the cleaning needing to be done at my house. Exciting life I lead, I know.

Storyline
We have finally started our new Storyline The Arrival. I showed most of you the book over conferences and we jumped right in last week. We are thinking about the things that are most valuable to us, the personality traits of people who leave their homes for good and the courage it must take to do so. We are creating items to pack in suit cases but we don’t have enough suit cases yet. If you have any extra cereal boxes laying around please send them in.

Math
We are spending some extra time right now on place value and 3 digit addition and subtraction. I just looked over some 3 digit addition assessments and wowzers they are doing really great. I was really impressed. 3 digit subtraction is going to take more time of course. The borrowing and then borrowing when there is a zero, its complicated, but we will practice and we will get it. We have been dabbling a bit in multiplication and we will start in earnest in the next couple of weeks.

Writing
Last Friday I mailed off our Monster Book stuff and we are now officially published authors. I don’t know exactly when the books will arrive but I think they will arrive fairly soon, hopefully before we take off for Thanksgiving!

Have a good rest of your weekend and send in those cereal boxes.

Allison