Was It a Full Moon Yesterday?

Yes! I don't know about where you work, but I do believe a full moon brings out the "noisies" in children. O.k. and teachers. I forgot all about posting a blog yesterday until 8 a.m. this morning.
Today seemed much calmer to me. The children are excited about finishing our novel and starting our project. Individually they are writing a narrative ladder about a character in the story. With their Book Club they are creating a poster with each piece of writing and picture on one big piece of butcher paper. They are to add a border that has something to do with the story and also to make the poster pop. We will continue to work on the project on Thursday and then present them to the class on Friday. Monday my class is going to start the novel The Summer of the Monkeys. If you have never read this book, grab your child's copy in the evening and read along. It is hilarious! We are going back to groups of children just within our class. It was a lot of fun working with Mr. Albarez's children too but we're going to take a break from it for awhile.
The children have voted! They actually voted to take the Social Studies test today instead of on Friday. It was an open book, open note test and most finished in class. Those who did not finish will need to finish it at home tonight.
We have started chapter 6 in math. They are finding this so easy because we're learning about ratios but have already learned about fractions. I love seeing they beam when they understand new concepts right away!
Hope everyone has a great evening. (I almost put weekend.) I will see you on Thursday!