Photos from the First Three Weeks of School
We practiced hallway expectations. We got acquainted with our new seats in our classroom. He also had some community building by getting to know each other. I arrived at PE early to capture the students in action and took a few pictures.
Playing Math Envisions' Games
Students practice math skills with a partner. It is a great way to reinforce skills that are learned and build numerical fluency.
Getting Active with Calendar
We march in place to 100,we count by 5's while doing lunges or squats, and by 10's. We sing the days of the week, the months of the year. We learn about the date, code date, greater than, less than, equal to, expanded equations, fact families, money, temperature, ordinal numbers, even, odd, temperature, Celsius, Fahrenheit, weather picture graph, tally marks, coins. I am currently modeling calendar after the first of the year the children will will teach calendar when they are the student of the week.
Photos from October
Parent Readers sign up to read to the class on Friday mornings. As you can see, we have a parent reader in our class reading to us. What a great way to end the school week. Just below the parent readers, you will see the children sitting in a circle with their Halloween stories. They wrote them using the writing process. They wrote their rough drafts, revised, conferenced with the teacher and peers, edited and published their final draft. Students illustrated their stories and then had an Author's chair. They share their celebrations with each other. The children were very excited because they were all authors. We did it coffee house style with hot cocoa. What a great experience. We ended each story with an applause and a compliment to each other.
Just below that you will see some skeletons that are on the bulletin board in the classroom. Since we have been studying bones in health we tied it to an art craft and a language arts story. We are using the writing process and our skeleton is our character in our story. Take a good look to see how different they are. Just like us! We are all unique.
Below the skeletons are some booklets that we made about the seasons. We folded three papers in half and hole punched two holes approximately an inch or two from the ends. We threaded one side with a rubber band and put a twig through the looped end to hold the rubber band in place. Then, we threaded the other end through the other hole and put the other part of the twig through the rubber-band loop. It bound the booklet perfectly. You can use paintbrushes, crayons, tongue depressors, get creative and try anything that you are focusing on. Then we tore up pieces of construction paper and glued them around the title to look like loose leaves in the fall. I opened up a few and took pictures of the illustrations. The students were to write about the characteristics of each season and then write their about their favorite season at the end. I think they turned out terrific! Aren't these children amazing?
You can see our world maps at the bottom of this page. We have been busy learning about the globe, maps, directions, the continents, etc.. We are still in the process of learning what life was like 100 years ago and comparing the past to the present. We will learn what it was like traveling to America. We are reading books about the past. We will continue to read more stories about Coming to America because we will go be learning about immigration. There will be more to come next month!
The very last picture shows our mess because we are always busy creating and working.
Just below that you will see some skeletons that are on the bulletin board in the classroom. Since we have been studying bones in health we tied it to an art craft and a language arts story. We are using the writing process and our skeleton is our character in our story. Take a good look to see how different they are. Just like us! We are all unique.
Below the skeletons are some booklets that we made about the seasons. We folded three papers in half and hole punched two holes approximately an inch or two from the ends. We threaded one side with a rubber band and put a twig through the looped end to hold the rubber band in place. Then, we threaded the other end through the other hole and put the other part of the twig through the rubber-band loop. It bound the booklet perfectly. You can use paintbrushes, crayons, tongue depressors, get creative and try anything that you are focusing on. Then we tore up pieces of construction paper and glued them around the title to look like loose leaves in the fall. I opened up a few and took pictures of the illustrations. The students were to write about the characteristics of each season and then write their about their favorite season at the end. I think they turned out terrific! Aren't these children amazing?
You can see our world maps at the bottom of this page. We have been busy learning about the globe, maps, directions, the continents, etc.. We are still in the process of learning what life was like 100 years ago and comparing the past to the present. We will learn what it was like traveling to America. We are reading books about the past. We will continue to read more stories about Coming to America because we will go be learning about immigration. There will be more to come next month!
The very last picture shows our mess because we are always busy creating and working.
Playground Photos
Students have have an opportunity to have recess everyday unless it rains. They run play and chase each other, play basketball, run laps,