Hi! We've been very busy this week. We made a rewrote two books, A My Name Is and Quick as a Cricket. We are going to keep them here for a little bit and practice reading them before letting you have them. We also drew, then painted, self portraits.
We talked about friends. We read about friends and wrote about friends. This group does a great job at discussing the main theme in books. We had a great discussion about inclusion today. We want to make sure no one feels invisible. Our class theme is to make sure everyone feels safe and happy each day at school!
We read a book called Chrysanthemum. We passed around a huge heart. Each time Chrysanthemum got her feelings hurt, we wrinkled the heart. At the end we tried saying nice things about her to see if we could smooth all the wrinkles. We couldn't! We talked about thinking before speaking so we don't hurt anyone's feelings. Even jokes can hurt. We then decorated bandaids to help heal the heart.
We learned about our chrome book this week. We know how to properly charge them and carry them. We logged in and got into Portaportal to find news sites to explore. So far, we have done Prodigy, Letter Tiles and Epic. We still have a lot more to learn. I will send home passwords in case you want to use any of it or see what we do once we get a good handle on portaportal.
Two of our quickly turned favorite activities are Friday Morning Slides and After Lunch Read Aloud. We have lots of fun singing and dancing on Friday mornings to start our day! We are loving the Pixie Tricks series by Tracey West. We are already halfway through book 3 (out of 8).
Upcoming Dates
* Reminder, first grade students that get picked up should be picked up at 2:25.
* Book Orders are due today. I will be putting in our order tomorrow morning. Our classroom code is DV68C. You can order books anytime by going to www.scholastic.com and using our code. I will get an alert that you ordered. I usually push all books through on our due date so they will arrive together. :)
* Picture Day will be Wednesday, September 16. Information came home today in folders.
* Friday, September 25 will be our first Flex Friday. All Flex Fridays will be in the afternoon this year.
Happy Weekend!
