Thursday, September 18, 2014

Well, we're FINALLY back to a more normal schedule after doing Dibels/TRC for a few days.  We got to get back to our morning meetings, which the kids love because we sing songs and read new stories.  Ask your kids about Suki's Kimono! They really enjoyed reading this during our reading block this morning.  The story is about a 1st grade girl who decides to wear her kimono to school.  Her sisters think that she needs to "wear something cool" because someone will laugh at her.  Well, they're right.  The other kids DO laugh at Suki.  The end of the story is really adorable because Suki deals with the other kids' ridicule in an adorable way.


Here is a short video that we watched to develop background knowledge about Japan (where Suki if from):




In math today we talked about the equal sign, also known as =.  For the most part the kids seemed to be catching on, however the explanation of what we are ACTUALLY doing is a bit more challenging.  Hopefully we can help their understanding by using balances and number lines during math next week.

We also made a Yes/No graph in math today to answer the question, Did you go swimming this summer?
We found out that 3 kids in our class DID NOT go swimming this summer.

We had an AMAZING assembly today! The kids were treated to our character/discipline assembly this afternoon where they got to be an audience for high school cheerleaders and a drumline.  The drummers were VERY animated! I think the kids will remember this experience for a while.  The kids did a good job as well of listening closely and watching the speakers.

 










After the assembly, we came back to the room for a few minutes a played a marble math addition game found here:  http://www.abcya.com/addition.htm