This was our first week of First Grade! We mostly covered review material in math and language arts: object position; grouping, sorting, and classifying objects; short a words; identifying and writing lowercase and capital letters. Miss M is far beyond all this, but a little easy review for getting into the routine of school is fine with me! It builds her confidence and so far has kept her interest despite it’s being too easy for her. In science, we learned to observe, compare, and classify using our five senses. We also discussed how scientists use the scientific method to learn about the world. Miss M is fixated on the magnifying glass that came with the curriculum and wanted to use “magnifying glass!” as her answer to every question. The book Your Five Senses by Melvin and Gilda Berger was a big hit with Miss M – not included with the Calvert curriculum. Our social studies lessons didn’t quite happen because I realized during Lesson 2 that I was miss...