Highlights of the Week 9-14-18

Hello families,

It's been a busy week in room 25! We continued learning our routines and adding to them. We also filled our heart jar for the first time! We celebrated by having double recess on Wednesday! In our daily schedule we had guided discovery about more new things and routines too. Here are a few:

We learned about trash, recycling and composting from Ms. Jacie. 

We learned how to share, build, and clean up our blocks. The Fox Kits had fun building cool towers and contraptions together.

We practiced how to show HEART when using our lockers in the hallway.

We learned about how we do Community Cleaning. At the end of each week we clean our desks to organize our papers and wipe away the germs from the week. We also work together to clean and organize our room. We are a team taking care of our community space.

This week we read books about characters with hopes and dreams who had to work hard to make their dreams come true. We read: Dream Big, Little Pig; Happy Dreamer; Leo the Late Bloomer; and Drawing Lessons from a Bear.

We also began writing and drawing about our own hopes and dreams for first grade. We are writing about things we want to learn or get better at. Next week we will also be writing about friendship goals we have for the year.

A lot of kids talked about wanting to learn how to tie shoes so we got out our practice boards to try it together. A few kids already know how so they are helping to teach their classmates!

We finished illustrating the class rules that the kids came up with. Last week we had sorted them into our HEART matrix and this week we added illustrations.

We finally uncovered ALL the bookshelves in our room and learned about how to find a just right book. That's one that's not too easy and not too hard. It has some words we don't know but we can read most of the words. Practicing reading this kind of book will help our brain learn and grow.

In math we continue counting and organizing things into groups of 5 and 10 for easier counting. We began to practice counting on when playing "Double Compare"--adding two numbers together. Some students are counting all the visuals to add while others are beginning to keep one number in their head and count on from there.

We also talked a lot about listening during our morning meetings. We learned how to show whole body listening by: looking, leaning in, listening and thinking, and responding to the person talking.


Dates to Remember:

• Picture Day Monday 9/17 
• Book Fair 8:30-2:30 9/17 - 9/21
• Early Release Wednesday 9/19 at 12:15

Have a great weekend!
❤ Mrs. Fox