We took our spelling test today just in case we have a snow day tomorrow.

If we do have school tomorrow we will be spending our time working on persuasive writing. This is a new type of writing to the kids. If they need something to do on the snow day (assuming it happens) they could spend some time researching for their persuasive writings. Most of the kids are writing to persuade which plants should be planted in our garden boxes this spring. They need to pick plants that can be grown in our climate. They also need to find a couple other points that would show why the plants they pick would be good choices for our gardens.

We spent our afternoon talking about the persuasive writings so we didn't have math. Since we didn't have math and the spelling test is already completed there isn't anything for the kids to do tonight besides their usually 15 minutes of reading. If we do have a snow day it would be the perfect opportunity to do some extra reading.

Math facts would also be a great thing to practice if we have a snow day and the kids have a little extra time on their hands. Practice could be done several ways. Flash cards can be used and if you don't have any just making some could be good practice if they have to write the answers on the back. Just make sure to check their answers for them so they don't practice with the wrong answers. There are also some great links that have math games. My favorite is Arcademic Skill Builders. Mr. Wylie's website in the links section also looks like it probably has a lot of good educational games.