and just like that... so long, April!

This is the time of year where everything is shifting... from the slow, cozy winter days, into the chaos of spring that can sometimes have us all feeling as if we are in the middle of a whirlwind! Thankful for the steadfastness and consistency of the work cycles... we will take as much of that as we can get. Grounding, grounding, grounding... watching the incredible growth all around us, coming right through us! Happy May!

Axel and James finished up the research on rocks

Lincoln learning about plural and collective nouns... do you know what a group of kittens is called? We do!

Long-awaited racks and tubes lesson (long division)

Stamp game subtraction with large numbers

Nora writes such beautiful letters! I hope this is an art that they continue with and pass on!

Learning about feminine and masculine nouns.... a great example of how language changes over time. Many of these terms have now fallen out of use!

These two always manage to "twin", without planning! Great minds (and great friends)!

More stamp game subtraction

Practicing division math facts with the division board

SRA individual reading practice

Practicing the racks and tubes work independently after the lesson (long division)

Oceania continent map

United States Map

Addition stamp game

Creating fractions of an amount using the stamp game. She's finding 1/3 of 33.

Concrete vs. Abstract nouns

Finishing up some double-digit checkerboard multiplication problems (problems with a double-digit multiplier).

Once you get to the "interjections" drawer of the grammar box tower, you get all the other parts of speech, too!

As we move into the final full month of school, I'm so thankful for the steadiness and predictability of our classroom. This tends to be the time of year when all the "seeds" that have been planted throughout the year begin to bear fruit. When traditional classrooms are ready to be done and have one foot into summer already, our kids tend to work right up to the end. Thankful.