Today, students took the Academic Literacy Questionnaire, which is useful as a way to discover their own habits and attitudes. It also invites student to think about the skills they need to develop to become more successful students, readers, and writers. This lead us to learning the word metacognition, a big word that means Thinking about Thinking.

Students were reminded to be studying their vocabulary list for the Friday test.

Students were also praised for doing such an outstanding job on their first homework assignment. This is my ninth year of teaching and I have never has such a fantastic completion rate on a homework assignment. Out of 96 students, only two students did not turn in the assignment. I am loving this group of kids. We are off to such a great start.