Good day everyone. Well, today we had a pretty good day. We had three rounds of Daily 5 today and we are now up to 14 minutes of Read to Self and we are now working very hard to build our stamina on our writing skills.  Miss Gallant taught us a lot of different ways that we can work on our writng.  We can write a letter or a narritive story, (what are the five parts of a narritive again?) We can also wirte our opinion of something. An example would be, I like the book The Mouse and the Motorcycle because...Or we could also write out a list, that is also a form of writng.  We will continue to work on this tomorrow.    Mr. McCallum also continued to teach the students about patterns. Today we reviewed our patterns and learned about our first chess piece, the knight. We have a spelling test tomorrow.  Books went home today for our borrow a book program.  The children are responsible for changing their books each morning. The books you will find in your childs bag are two levels back from thier June level.  This is common procedure in all grades 1 to 3 to allow the child to read the book without frustration.