This week was full of exciting things, but our culminating event was Track and Field! Thanks to the PE department for planning such a fabulous event, and thanks to all who came out to help. In reading and language arts, we continued our novel studies, spelling and grammar centers, and poetry. We developed our envisioning skills by reading and writing descriptively. In social studies, we channeled our inner cartographers and applied our knowledge of map features to create our own maps. Second graders loved making maps of their desks. Third graders used a digital tool to create maps of the Kiker playground, and then used an interactive map to create their own map quiz for a classmate. Fourth graders put together an intricate overlay map denoting Texas regions, rivers, and major cities. In math, fourth graders continued talking about multiplication and ways to represent this concept with multidigit factors. We are becoming more confident with area models, p...