This has been a short but full week. Students continue to read The Cay and respond to guiding questions which form the basis of our discussions. The dialect, which was challenging for students at first, is now fun for most of them. Chapters 8 -9 are due Monday. We have also been working on geography. We took a "field trip" to the giant map near the bathrooms on our wing. Students made observations including the fact that the land mass is greater in the Northern Hemisphere. A student pointed out that that must mean that the population is greater there than in the Southern Hemisphere. We spent a half hour working on longitude and latitude. There are good practice sites on the internet that you may wish to have your child visit to become more comfortable with locations skills. In fifth grade math we are working on different strategies of multiplication. The word problem, All That Glitters, is due Monday. Have a great weekend.