English

Today we began the day with a talking circle.  I believe it's important to allow everyone to have a voice.  Afterwords, we debriefed yesterday's activities and I read about courage and identified four ways to gain control: knowledge, experience, tools and help.  I hope we can remember these for the remainder of our time together.

After recess we had our first English lesson.  We used IVANCAPP  to identify the eight parts of speech and then classified them according to the role they play in a sentence.  Next, we watched the first Schoolhouse Rock grammar cartoon "Nouns."  Finally, we went to the library and Ms. Taggert discussed some books before we had a chance to select our own.