This week our part-time student intern from UVM, Ms. Madeline, read us Angelina Ballerina about a mouse who has a hope and dream to be a ballerina. Then we talked about what hopes and dreams about friendship we have and want to get better at this school year. These friendship goals ranged from making new friends to teaching friends a new game to learning more kids names.
We also read, and reread in a few ways, the fabulous book One. This book is about standing up for yourself and your friends against a bully and helping everyone belong and feel included. We did a writing project about this book too where we wrote and illustrated ways that everyone can do something together.
This week Fox Kits continued working on their reading stamina, practicing read to myself and read to someone/partner reading for 15 minutes each. We also learned the expectations for how to meet with a teacher and work on writing independently. Students are really showing what they can do and are making great reading choices!
In math this week we began to practice story problems or word problems. We learned how to read the story 3 ways: think about what's happening (+ or -), think about the numbers, think about the question. Then we solve it and show our work on paper by representing our thinking or how we figured it out. First graders practiced this with addition stories within 20 and subtraction stories within 20!
We had a few guided discoveries this week. We learned about germs and how to do proper hand washing with Nurse Liz. We learned about a few new tools we can use in the "take a break space" to help us calm down and be ready to learn again. We also practiced a "Secure the Building" drill 2 times -- once to learn expectations and a second time during a whole school practice. This is a safety drill, like fire drills, that we practice often throughout the year so students would know what to do if there ever were an emergency.
We also filled our heart jar again! We dumped our hearts into the JFK heart monitor on Thursday and celebrated on Friday with a costume dress up day!
Earlier this week I sent home an invitation for you to join our morning meeting next week, Tuesday October 2nd. We'd love for you to come and see what this part of our day looks like! No need to RSVP, just come join us from 8:30-9:00 in room 25 if you can!
Dates to Remember:
- Family Morning Meeting - 10/2 8:30-9:00
- Early Release Wednesday 10/17 at 12:15
- No School Friday 10/19
- Picture Re-take Day 10/26
Have a great weekend!
❤ Mrs. Fox
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