Tuesday!

I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend!  So far, the week has gone great!  The kids are definitely getting more comfortable in the room and their new friends and I'm seeing a lot of them really blooming!

In reading, we are continuing to focus on how to "do" reader's workshop and practicing this skill.  Today we talked about our Buzz Groups, or our reading discussion groups.  The kids read quietly and then went into their buzz groups to discuss what they had read.  We talked about the importance of listening to the speaker, making eye contact and taking turns!

In math, we finished up time. This seems to be fairly easy for this class.  Continue to work on time to the half hour at home.  We also made our own calendar and the kids wrote in important dates for August!  We learned to play addition Top It and will use it on our Every Day Math Game Day on Thursday where we put together all our new games and play them during math!  Thank you for your support with the homework!  I know there's a lot going on at home in the evening so I am grateful that it's getting finished and reinforcing what has been taught at school! THANK YOU!

We are working on writing about our summer vacations that will be displayed at Open House!  We did pre writing by making a list of the things we did. Tomorrow we will put them into sentences and edit!  The kids will decorate their paper t-shirts as well!

Thank you to the parents who have brought in snack!  It's going really well and I think the kids enjoy that food "break" in the afternoon.