Highlights of Our First 2 Weeks!

Hello families,
We've had 2 great (short) weeks together getting used to routines, beginning some projects, and learning more about each other. Here are some things we did during our first two weeks.


Guided Discovery: This is a time we explore new materials in our classroom. We learn how and when we use them, where they belong, and how to take care of the materials responsibly.

• Classroom toys: blocks, legos, puzzles, animal toys, games, free draw paper, drawing books
• Math tools: cubes, 100 charts, 10s frames, number lines
• Sections of books in our classroom library
• Classroom Jobs
• Art supplies: pencils, crayons, scissors, glue sticks, markers, multicultural crayons, colored pencils
• How to show HEART in different places in our school (classroom, playground, cafeteria, hallway, bathrooms)

Math:

• Counting strategies
• We can organize our cubes or drawings in our representations to be more accurate and efficient in our counting.
• We made groups of ten on tens frames and counted efficiently by 10s to 100.
• Writing numbers to 100.

Projects:

• We read Mouse Paint and made a book about what colors our messy mice got into!
• We read Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes. Pete did different things in different parts of his school. We took a tour of our school looking at different parts and talking about what we do in those places. We made a big book, Fox Kits Rocking in Our JFK Shoes!
• We read The Colors of Us and Two Eyes, A Nose, and a Mouth and noticed how just like the people in the book we are all unique and make our community a beautiful and vibrant place. We sang a song on this theme and made self-portraits.
• We took ownership of our classroom and our fox kit community and began to decorate our space.

Mindfulness:

• Mindful coloring
• Breathing exercises (starfish/5-finger breathing, volcano breath, breathing ball)
• Loving Kindness practice for self-compassion

We also had our Kick-Off Event for CLiF (Children's Literacy Foundation) to celebrate The Year of the Book here at JFK. Each child in our class got to take home 1 book of their choosing to keep forever! Throughout the year we will have more events to celebrate reading and literacy skills. By the end of the year each child in our school will have 10 new books to keep forever!

Usually I will send out our highlights blog post on Fridays. I am sending this out to you on Thursday this week because this semester I am taking a class at UVM one Friday each month. I will be out for this class tomorrow, 9/7, but I know our class of little fox kits will do a great job with our guest teacher!


Dates to Remember:

• Picture Day Monday 9/17 
• Early Release Wednesday 9/19 at 12:15

Have a great weekend!
❤ Mrs. Fox