Getting into the Swing of Things

The students are doing a great job learning the procedures and rules of the classroom.  Last week on the blog I described the reading rotations that your child will rotate through during our reading block.  This week, the kids actually began reading rotations.  I was super impressed!  They did a great job! We will always start our rotations out as a whole group on the rug.  This is where we complete our phonemic awareness activities, listening comprehension, and where we read our big books together. Afterwards, we break into our groups.  The students had their first week of guided reading.  This is a rotation where the kids come work with teacher.  I will give them a book that we will work on reading together.  This is the time that I can differentiate instruction and meet your child's specific needs.  Below are some pictures of us during our rotations.

Reading with our whisper phones.  The kids loved them!

Guided Reading

Reading with our whisper phones.

Playing a reading game on our Promethean Board.

Word Work:  The kids are spelling their high frequency/word wall words with Wikki Sticks.

Our math group is set up very similar to our reading block.  We begin with whole group instruction and then the students break up into small groups.  Once again, this is so that I can meet each child's individual needs.  The rotations for math are work with the teacher, math games, math fluency, and computer math.  Below I have added some pictures of my kids working during math rotations.

Making a bar graph.

Making a bar graph.

Working on our number sense.  Rolling the dice and building the towers to contain that number of cubes.

Working on our number sense.  Spin and Color.

Working on our number sense.  Spin and color the number.

Math on the computer.  Currently, we are using Starfall Math.

Working on the Promethean board playing a math number recognition game.

Making a bar graph.

 This week our student teacher Miss Clevenger began teaching social studies.  We are learning about rules and laws and our rights and responsibilities.  The students did a great job discussing the rules they have to follow at home and school and laws that everyone has to follow.  We watched some learning videos on Brain Pop and read an emergent reader on the topic (that should have went home this week).  The students also read cards that contained different rights and responsibilities and then they sorted them on the pocket chart.  On Friday, the students had to write about one right and one responsibility they have as a citizen.

Just a reminder that next week is a short 3 day week.  There is no school on Monday, September 5th and Tuesday, September 6th.  Also, all Scholastic orders have been submitted.  I will let you know when they arrive and they will go home with your child.  Have a great weekend!