Puzzling with our buddies

Now that our gardening work has come to an end, we spent our buddy time this week doing puzzles! It was a fabulous chance to use our brains in a different way and collaborate with our buddies . We enjoyed it so much, we'll be doing it again next week!

Reading block

One hour everyday is devoted to reading. Your child participates in a variety of literacy based activities during that time. They might choose to do Lexia on an iPad. 

They might be 'reading to self', practicing their reading. They might choose to work on writing or they could be doing an additional phonics lesson, handwriting group, or reading group with me. They might be doing some work with a 'word of the day' or follow up work with a book we read in reading group. Ask your child which activities they enjoy and why!

This is an overhead shot of one reading group hard at work!

Puzzling with our buddies

Now that our gardening work has come to an end, we spent our buddy time this week doing puzzles! It was a fabulous chance to use our brains in a different way and collaborate with our buddies . We enjoyed it so much, we'll be doing it again next week!

Books and more books!

When the latest book box arrived yesterday, we couldn't wait to unpack it. Thanks to so many orders, I was able to order 50 new books for our classroom! 

So exciting! We spread them out and looked at them, we took a minute and chose one to look at quickly. After looking at three, we chose 2 for our book boxes. Thank you for your support with building our classroom library!

Box tops!

Collect those box tops! Today Quinn came to our class to tell is how we can help earn money for the school by collecting box tops. The kids are extra excited because there will be a pizza party for the class that brings in the most box tops. Since we have the biggest class, we think we can win!

Partners to ten

Along with solving mystery numbers in numbers sentences, a big focus in math has been building fluency with partners to make 10. The othr day we played a fun game to practice this. One child held a card on their head and the partner told them the number that goes with their card to make ten. Then the child had to figure out the number! So fun!

Sprints

Have you heard about the sprints we are doing in math? Each day we warm up our brains by doing a sprint. These sprints are different tasks that are timed for a short time (usually one minute). This builds fluency. The children are loving seeing their improvement each day. The sprints change every so often and we are loving them!