Welcome back! It feels good to be back at school. It was a nice, but rainy day. This morning we wrote in our journals about what we did over spring break. For reading today, we worked on the long o sound with the spelling pattern o_e. We took our spelling pre-test, read a story called "Hang on, Rose!", and talked about writing a poem. Sometimes poems rhyme but they don't have to. We had music and PE today. In science today we checked our cups to see how many beetles we had. Every single person had at least one beetle. We drew an adult beetle in our journals and labeled it. Did you know that beetles have three parts: head, thorax, abdomen. The last thing we did for science today was planting two brassica seeds into a cup. We will have to check them tomorrow to see if any are growing yet. Math was working more with dimes, nickels, and pennies. We do a nice job showing a certain amount with these coins. We need to remember with our new strategy that if we circle five pennies it is traded in for one nickel. Our day ended with us sharing about our spring breaks! See you all tomorrow!