We've just had our first 5 day week. The Fox Kits are settling into our classroom routines. This week we've focused on how to show HEART in the classroom, during read aloud, during meeting times, sharing ideas in math talks or readers workshop, and while playing together. We practiced expected behaviors during morning arrival, getting and eating breakfast, lining up to go to lunch, eating at lunch, lining up for unified arts, using our lockers, and practicing fire drills.
In math we worked a lot with tens frames this week. We made a public record to show what we know about using a tens frame to organize our number representation. We played a few games with the tens frames and began to write and recognize equations that match the story the numbers tell.
We also have been adding numbers (putting them together) using 10s frames and counting all or counting on. We talked about the concepts of more and less and played a game called Double Compare to practice these combined skills.
We read Leo the Late Bloomer and Drawing Lessons from a Bear to talk about how we all learn differently and at our own pace. We also like to learn many of the same things but also have our own individual hopes and dreams. We began to brainstorm what we hope and dream about learning in school together this year. We began writing about our academic learning goals.
During our Mind and Body Practices (Mindfulness) we've been noticing how our bodies feel and what we need for our bodies to be ready to learn. Sometimes we need to gain energy and wake ourselves up so we do energizing body practices. Other times we need to calm down our bodies and quiet our minds so we do mindful body practices. This week we also read a book about mindfulness, Charlotte and the Quiet Place. We talked about how we each carry a quiet place with us that we can go to when we need to calm down. We drew pictures about what we our quiet places look like so we can go to them in our minds when the world is noisy and we need some peace and quiet.
We also did another fun art project this week to brighten up our space. We made beautiful sun catchers and practiced some tricky cutting skills. Look at our windows to see our artwork on display!
On Friday our class buddies from the Peace and Justice class at St.Michael's College joined us for a pizza party! We got to know them a little bit and taught them a math game. They will be joining us during math to help out and play math games with us until early December!
Another exciting thing happened on Friday. We filled our class HEART Jar!!! We earn hearts by showing expected behaviors and practicing HEART (Honest, Engaged, Appropriate, Responsible, Timely) throughout our days. The class brainstormed some celebration ideas and then voted. On Monday we'll have our first class celebration: Doll or Stuffed Animal Day! Each child in our class can bring one doll or stuffed animal to school. It must be able to fit in your child's backpack. Thanks for your support of this exciting event!
Dates to Remember:
- Picture Day this upcoming Monday 9/18, 10:00 a.m.
- Monday 9/18 - Class Celebration: Bring a doll or stuffed animal to school day!
- Scholastic Book Fair @ JFK Sept. 18-22
-Follow the link below for information about the food bank dates for this school year.
http://www.wsdschools.org/vt-foodbank-dates-for-2017-18-school-year/
Have a great weekend!
❤ Mrs. Fox
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