While we begin to establish our classroom community we are also getting a start on some of the important building blocks of our day. We have begun building our independent reading stamina during our "read to self" time. During writer's workshop we have gotten started by planning out our thoughts and thinking about the mechanics of a complete sentence. In math we have played games, shared counting strategies, and explored some of the tools we'll be using throughout the year.
Here is a glimpse of what all of this great learning looks like in the classroom!
Read to Self
We also learned how good reader's choose "good fit" books. Good fit books are the books we fill our book boxes with weekly. Reader's choose books by determining a purpose for reading, choosing topics that interest them, making sure they comprehend what they are reading, and making sure they know how to read most of the words!
Writer's Workshop
As we start writer's workshop the first lessons revolve around how to think of a topic, how to plan first, next, then, and finally how to begin to write independently. The class was so excited to get started with their new writer's folder. This first unit is called small moment (narrative) stories and they were buzzing with topics already!!
Math
To start the year off we have spent a lot of time talking about accurate counting strategies and put them to use during some of our math learning centers. We have also begin to share strategies for solving word problems and begun listing them on an anchor chart. This year children will use their math journal to record their work with problem solving. We also took some time this week to get to use some of the math tools we will work with throughout the year.
I hope enjoyed learning about our first few days of school! I look forward to meeting many of you this Thursday (15th) at PIN!
