Hey Buddy by Caden Week one flew by!  The students are picking up the routines easily and we are already making great progress in most areas.  We started off the day setting up our pages and doing our spelling word.  Today's word was "bumblebee".  How many syllables does it have?  We worked on writing 3 sentences for our introduction, and did a doodle of a sea monster before we went down the hall to see Mrs. Hill for Language Arts.  It was a rainy day today and we had indoor recess.  After recess we had math.  We worked on our pattern rules and talked about items in a pattern.  In math we call each item (shape, color, number) that is being used an element.  How many elements in this number pattern?  "8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20"  Can you fill in the pattern rule for it?  Start with ___ and ____ each time.  After a quiet indoor recess we had art, where we drew our own monster and colored him.  Then we had PE with Mrs. Hache, I came in at the end and saw a great game of four square!  After PE we went back upstairs, worked on our monsters and finished off the day writing in our journals.  How did you finish the sentence "My favorite thing about school today was..." There were two notes that went home today.  One was a floride permission slip that needs to be signed and returned, and the other was just some news items and reminders.  Hope everyone has a great weekend and I will see you all on Monday for our first full week!