Sorry for the tardiness on my weekly post! It is my goal to post every Saturday about the previous week, but things get busy for me over the weekends!
We are wrapping up our classroom assessments in reading and spelling. Students have been working hard practicing Reader's Workshop. We brainstormed why it's so important to read every day and met with our second grade Book Buddies for the first time on Friday! Ms. Allen taught several lessons on rhyming words and spelling patterns. As a part of our Social Studies unit, We are a Family at School, we talked about what it means to be a family at home and at school. It is our responsibility as a classroom and school family to take care of each other, to help each other, and to support each other. We have such a caring group of students! They have already demonstrated many acts of kindness in taking care of their classmates!
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We made it through our first FULL week of school! And what a busy week it was! Thank you to everyone who was able to make to Open House on Tuesday night. Were you able to guess your student by their self portrait and clues?! Check out two of our students' portraits below!
Our caterpillar is munching away on its milkweed and growing each day! Hopefully it will make its chrysalis in the next couple of days. The students have loved learning about the stages of a monarch caterpillar's life cycle and observing our classroom caterpillar. We are recording our observations in science journals every other day. As a part of our launch to Writer's Workshop, students brainstormed ideas that we could write about. In First Grade, we write about things we know. This often included our family, friends, school, and hobbies. Below is a resource for ideas we can write about that the classroom worked together to create. On FUN Friday, we earned use of the Chromebook Cart at the end of the day. Students learned how to set up their Chromebook with a mouse and headphones. We explored the educational website www.abcya.com. Eventually, Chromebooks will be an integrated station in our classroom for Reader's Workshop and Math Workshop. We had a wonderful, albeit short, first week of school! It is always nice to have just a couple of days to ease the kids into the swing of things. We spend a LOT of time learning and practicing our school and classroom routines as well as getting to know each other. I can already tell that we have a fabulous group of kiddos! Ms. Allen and I were so delighted to see classmates helping others, using kind words, and inviting each other to play at recess! We can't wait to get to know your children better and dig deeper into learning! Ms. Allen and I worked very hard in the last couple of weeks of August to prepare our classroom for the new year! At the end of each school year, teachers have to pack up all of the classroom supplies so that the custodial crew can deep clean and wax the floors. It takes hours to unpack a classroom and often looks like an explosion of supplies! Here are just a couple of before and after photos of our room this year!
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