Wrapping Up the First Week of School

During our reading time this week we talked about a few strategies that we use when reading. We also talked about one of our Daily 5 centers, Read to Self.  We made this list of what the students are supposed to do and what the teacher does while we read to ourselves.

We also started using our new math textbook. We started Chapter 3: Basic Facts and Relationships and will be working hard on our addition and subtraction facts for the next few weeks.  You can see that these boys and girls were working hard on their workbook pages.

The students also got to play math games when they finished their work. Here they are playing the Caterpillar game.

We had a fantastic first week of school!!

The First Day of School

We have had a great first two days of school! Yesterday the kids filled out a sheet that told me all about them. I hung them in the hallway.

We also practiced doing our Daily Practice Math and Reading. This will be our morning work every day.

 We read the story "Chrysanthemum", after we read the story I gave the kids cubes and dot stickers and had them build their names and see who had the longest name in the class.

We then divided up into two teams, girls vs. boys to see which group had the longest name if we combined all the cubes.

The girls had more letters in their names!

Next, we wrote in our journals about our summer vacations. I loved hearing about everyone's summer fun!

Looking forward to a great school year!!

Monday is the First Day of School!!

Look forward to seeing everyone bright and early Monday morning!!