We had another busy week! It was really hard not being at school on Monday with all of my favorite first graders, but I got a good report from the sub!
This week we started our literacy block rounds. We have introduced two choices out of a total of five (Daily 5) and the students can choose to work on writing or read to self. During these rounds students have jobs to focus on: Stay in one spot, work quietly, work the whole time, start right away. We will continue to build and develop these skills as we practice this independent learning and work time.
In writers workshop this week we talked about what a writers workshop looks and sounds like. It was a great discussion followed by some great writing. We also talked about how we share our writing. We had about half of the class share their writing to the whole class and I was so impressed by their bravery and the respect of the first grade audience! I believe sharing work is incredibly empowering and we are going to be doing a lot of it this year... we are off to a great start!
In math we did some activities with popsicle sticks and tally marks to help students with their counting fluency. Counting by 5's is also going to be helpful as we start working with clocks and telling time. We also did some whole class picture story problems where we focused on understanding that we can get to the same answer in many different ways. The students had to show their work using a visual as well as a number sentence.
The Stephenson Lion art projects are finished and look amazing! They are hung up in room 112 and they are definitely something to roar about (pun intended)!
Looking forward to a great week 3 and seeing everyone at Back to School Night!
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