Today was another great day in our room! This morning, we talked about the summer Olympics and the children graphed their favorite Olympic sport they enjoyed watching this summer (Gymnastics won). We talked about choosing easy, just right or hard books and the children picked 3 of these books from the library. They put a post it in each book that they thought was easy, just right or hard and we shared what makes a book this way for us...i.e.we can read all the words, we can read some of the words, but it can be challenging and we can't read anything and it's too tough!
The children also wrote and drew their pictures on Habit 2: Beginning With The End In MInd. We picked 6 and put them on our habit wall.
We are digging deep into Little House On The Prairie. The kids LOVE this book and we left on a very suspenseful part of the story! I couldn't get the kids to leave the room at the end of the day because they wanted to know what happens! I told them we would continue on Monday. The kids were shown pictures of what Laura and her family might have looked like back then and I was able to give them a virtual tour of Laura's house on the prairie! How cool??
In Math, we reviewed money and played a money game on the Smart Board while answering story problems. They did VERY well with this! I was impressed that they remembered money so well. Later in the afternoon, we played Everyday Math Games online including Monster Squeeze and Money Exchange! The kids sure do love these games and it's nice because they encourage each other on when we do them whole group!
We had our first fire drill today and of course, it was during P.E.! I was there to assist them and Mr. Shoemaker and they did great!
I sent home Scholastic book order forms today. If you can, consider purchasing books from this. The kids made a "wish list" today for books they would like in our library and I can purchase them through Scholastic with points earned from your orders. They are due August 31 (next Friday).
I am looking forward to next week and I hope your child is enjoying being in my room!
Have a great weekend and spend this time with your children. They are fantastic people (as you know!)
- Mrs. Hurak
I am so excited that Ava is getting familiar with Little House on the Prairie! My favorite show as a little girl! Thank you for doing such awesome things with our kids. We played school all weekend - it's very obvious that she LOVES all the class activities. She taught us how to "buzz". Thanks again for all you do!
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