Week 2

It was a busy week in Room 112!

At the beginning of the week I read the book "How Full is your Bucket." This book highlights the power of kindness and connects with our Room 112 bucket that is added to when we work together and get compliments and recognition from Stephenson Staff and adults. We also created a class promise and all signed it as a commitment to our classroom community!

We have continued to practice Read to Self and have been building on our literacy block expectations: Stay in one spot, work quietly, work the whole time, start right away, and build stamina.  We will continue to build and develop these skills as we practice this independent learning and work time. I am already seeing their stamina grow!

Our writers workshop is off to a great start. We discussed and acted out what a writers workshop looks and sounds like. It was a great discussion followed by some great writing. We also talked about how we share our writing. I was very impressed by their bravery and the respect of the first grade audience! I believe sharing work is incredibly empowering and rewarding and we are going to be doing a lot of it this year :)

This week we also transitioned from exploring the math manipulatives, to using them as tools for math. It is pretty incredible to see their creativity when working with the math manipulatives. Students are recognizing and building patterns, identifying shapes, counting and adding.

Hope everyone had a wonderful, long weekend!

Reminders:

9/11 -- Ms. Soulas out of town (Sub day)