We had a great first three days of school and I can tell already that this will be a fun and productive year.
This week, we started to get to know each other, establish some class routines and agreements, and get some work done.
We dove right into our new Bridges math curriculum by making glyphs of how we prefer to work in math-- alone/pairs/groups, showing work with words/pictures/numbers, etc. (Ask your child what a 'glyph' is.) We discovered that our class has a lot of similarities, but also a lot of differences when it comes to math. This will make for excellent discussions and opportunities to learn from each other.
We've started our Readers Workshop by talking about what makes reading the best that it can be. I found out that this class really loves to read in bed and on the couch! I've also found that, luckily, they can also read at desks, on the floor, and in bean bag chairs. Next week we'll begin working on our Reading Notebooks.
In addition to all of that, we also started organizing our science notebooks and even had our first PE class and our first fire drill.
We certainly earned this weekend! I hope that everyone has a good one!
This week, we started to get to know each other, establish some class routines and agreements, and get some work done.
We dove right into our new Bridges math curriculum by making glyphs of how we prefer to work in math-- alone/pairs/groups, showing work with words/pictures/numbers, etc. (Ask your child what a 'glyph' is.) We discovered that our class has a lot of similarities, but also a lot of differences when it comes to math. This will make for excellent discussions and opportunities to learn from each other.
We've started our Readers Workshop by talking about what makes reading the best that it can be. I found out that this class really loves to read in bed and on the couch! I've also found that, luckily, they can also read at desks, on the floor, and in bean bag chairs. Next week we'll begin working on our Reading Notebooks.
In addition to all of that, we also started organizing our science notebooks and even had our first PE class and our first fire drill.
We certainly earned this weekend! I hope that everyone has a good one!