I spent a long part of the weekend reading student's responses to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech, I have a Dream.  I was so impressed with the insightful, meaningful responses that these kids had.  Bravo!

Today we read Jim LaMarche's The Raft.  It is the story of a little boy who has to spend his summer in the country.  At first he is apprehensive.  He thinks the country is boring because his Grandmother's cabin there has no T.V.  Then he learns to appreciate the natural world around him through his exploration of the river on a raft he found.  By the end of the story the boy finds himself feeling quite happy and at home in the country.

In math we are going to start working on bar models for multiplication and division.  We will also continue talking about fractions.