Ms Burton Snow's Blog

Adding six five digit numbers is harder than it looks.

Me:  "Ok everyone.  We're going to be learning about a biography today in Language Arts." Male Student #1:  "What, is that a country or something?" Male Student #2:  "No, that's geography, not biography." In short, I'm trying to teach them about a piece of work that someone writes about someone else.  Our class is going to be writing biographies about their buddy readers.

Well, yesterday I was talking about one of our new estimation strategies.  The new strategy is called compensation.  You can imagine the discussion we had!  A lovely topic to bring up at the supper table tonight!

This is what went on during Music class.