Wow! The first two weeks of school have flown by! I am having so much fun with your children every day! We are enjoying our time getting to know each other and build our classroom community.
Reading: Our first unit focuses on Building a Reading Life! We learn about picking just right books, keeping track of our reading patterns, finding a good spot, and celebrating our successes. As a class we reached our goal of 20 minutes of reading stamina so we have earned the opportunity to open new reading spots on Monday!
We wrote about our best reading spots!
We practiced reading at our table spots and building our reading stamina!
In math our first unit focuses on addition and subtraction using hands-on materials. We started the year by creating people glyphs to get to know the mathematicians in our classroom. We learned that most people in our class like to work alone (red hats).
We also have been introduced to our workplace routine (math games) and learned three new workplaces: Make the Sum, Target Twenty and Subtraction Bingo! We talked about what makes a good workplace partner.
We have enjoyed some fun team building and get to know you activities! We started with a series of hula hoop team challenges!
We had a whole class rock, paper, scissors tournament!
And we designed, constructed, and tested parachutes to drop off our new playground!
Lastly, we had third grade team time where we talked about using self-control in third grade. We acted out various scenarios demonstrating great self-control and poor self-control. There were lots of laughs!
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