Week 2!

We continued to practice classroom and school routines!  We begin each day with morning meeting where we greet one another.




During Reading Workshop we...

• Read from books in bins at our tables.
• Practiced taking care of our books.
• Turned and talked with our new reading buddies about the story.
• Worked on our independent reading stamina!
• Started practicing sight words - everyone will receive their own individualized sight word ring.

Shared reading is 10 minutes in our day when the whole class reads together. Quite often, the reading is a familiar Nursery Rhyme or poem, or memorable text. We read the same piece each day, and by the end of the week the students are “reading” it on their own!  Our shared reading this week was Jack be Nimble.  A copy of the nursery rhyme should be in your child's Holmes School folder.  Feel free to practice it at home!


During Writing Workshop we...

• Learned how to use our Yellow writing folders - red dot vs. green dot.
• Wrote a story through illustrations.
• Shared our story.

During Math Workshop we...

• Practiced our math centers routine.
• Learned how to use math manipulatives - (cubes, pattern blocks, 3-D blocks).
• Shared how we used the math manipulatives - (patterning, counting, constructing).
• Learned counting games like POP/TENS and counting cubes to make a rod.

During our Second Steps lesson we learned the we listen with....

• Voice quiet, body still, ears listening, eyes watching!
• We also learned about "body bubbles" and giving one another space.

We continued to build our classroom community through name chants, games and activities!


REMINDERS:

• Please send in $7.00 for Let's Find Out.
• Please send a note if your child's departure is changing.
• Everyone needs a smock for Art and a change of clothes.
• Picture Day is Wednesday!!!  Send in your order forms.