We listened to two great readers, Brendan and Alyssa as they read to the class. In addition to updating out calendar, leading us through the pledges, part of the child of the day's job is to read to the class. They both did a GREAT job! Yesterday was a switch day. Upon the students return to the classroom, we worked on words and then math. Today we continued with our inferring strategies, but also wrote a persuasive argument (part of the common core state standards) about the main character in the Gardens of Abdul Gasazi. This tied in well with our writing as we are also learning about persuasive arguments. During math time we worked on math facts and patterns in math. Here we are writing our persuasive arguments: