This week has been a lot of fun! We have started to learn routines and expectations, and the children are showing expected behavior! It is so nice to see how our learning community is coming together! Next week, we should continue to learn routines, and start to fall into a more regular schedule!
Picture day was a success! I can’t wait to see their pictures! It’s so fun to see the children all dressed up! Reminder, retake day is October 24th.
This week we started to work on our Hopes and Dreams for the year, and our wishes for the world. The children were very thoughtful in writing their goals, and thinking about how they can help to reach them. Be sure to check out their balloons in the hallway, at back to school night!
We also worked on another quick writing project that will be in the classroom for you to peek at, as well!
During our literacy block, we read the fable the Lion and the Mouse. The children worked on a few activities with this story. First, we worked on sequencing the events in the story. They then created a sequence chain to put the events in order. This was a lot of fun!
We also worked on retelling events from the story, by choosing the most important events, and putting them into our own words. I was SOOOOO impressed with how well the children did with this! We also wrote what we thought the lesson in the story was. I am excited to start reading groups in the next couple of weeks! We will also be starting some RTI groups next week, so the children may be talking about working with another teacher. This is to help target both literacy and math skills, in a small group setting. The children usually love this time!
For numeracy, we are continuing to work on routines. The children are learning about rotations, and we are practicing each of them in isolation, before we start to rotate to more than one, in a day. This week, we started to practice games. One of the games we practiced was the number grid game. The children had a lot of fun, playing with a buddy.
Friday was also a big hit! We took out iPads for the first time! The kids did a great job logging into Connected, which is our Everyday Mathematics online resource. They had a lot of fun exploring, and playing these games!
We may start to try some modified spelling lists this week. Many of the children did not like to practice words they already knew, but I was hoping to get them back in the swing of school, and homework, without the added stress of a challenging list. They seem eager and excited, so we may give it a shot this week. The children will just practice the highlighted words on the bottom of their list.
I hope you all had a chance to get out and enjoy this beautiful weekend! What amazing weather! Hopefully you are all avoiding the pesky colds, and viruses floating around. We have been doing a lot of sanitizing! We always appreciate donations of soft tissues. The children’ noses thank you! I try to keep us stocked, but we go through quite a few during sniffly seasons. Thank you again for all of the donations that have given us a great start to the year!