Español Aquí: Febrero Boletín
I hope everyone had a restful long weekend! This month our morning meetings have focused on things in the classroom that have been harder for us. Topics such as competitiveness inside and outside the class, frustrations during certain transitions, and struggles with specific academic times all came up. During our meetings we're practicing how we can have open and honest conversations so we can use them to make positive changes during our day. We've come up with different strategies (which all come from the students) to either make changes to our schedule, new ways we can approach each other on the yard, and so on. These conversations have really helped the students and myself work on how we can approach each other with questions, support each other during moments of struggle, and identifying how those moments we may not necessarily enjoy during the day are the ones where we feel the most stuck. Something a student said the other week was, "Your voice sounds like you're still pretty upset." This was such a beautiful moment because it modeled to everyone how we can respectfully express what we're thinking in a moment that validates everyone's thoughts and feelings. This moment is what we continue to mention in our meetings and I'm hoping throughout the rest of the year we continue to build this language that will support our relationships inside and outside of the classroom. One topic that came up amongst a majority of the students was when we feel stuck during writer's workshop. We took this and began an imagination unit where we focus on improving the creative parts of storytelling with a partner or multiple partners to help each other with ideas and adding greater detail to our stories. This led to reader's workshop where children brought up a new way to use our books bags where we can hold onto books we love and using them as mentor texts to support the writing process. In math we are focusing heavily on place value and reasoning through word problems. We begin with teen numbers and then extend up to 100. As the math problems become bigger, we're also sharing strategies used so that everyone can learn from each other. While at home I encourage you to practice counting by 10's, identify tens and ones place value in numbers around your home/community. The students have really enjoyed mixing ingredients together, whether it be glue, water colors, food coloring, and pretty much anything they find that they can mix with water, hah! So we're starting a chemical reaction journey next week, where we'll use the alphabet to bring in items to mix together and discover what will happen. Very excited to start this and see how the students can sort and identify reactors. Upcoming Dates: Thursday's- Library @ 11am Friday 2/25- Art class @ 1:30pm & Picture Day Monday 2/28- Garden Class @ 8:45am (this will be our last garden class) Tuesday's- Early Dismissal @ 1:28pm Note: Friday is picture day! I sent home a form today to return by Friday. You can choose to take and buy photos or choose to opt out. We have already taken a class photo so these are solely individual photos to purchase for home.
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Tempany
2/23/2022 03:56:34 pm
This is so awesome; so great to hear what is happening in class.
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