Wow it is Wednesday

We are already over halfway done with the first week!

The kids are continuing to practice our procedures and classroom rules. Things are running pretty smoothly for a first week, so I am hoping that by the end of next week our ability to follow procedure, rules, and behave properly is 100 percent down pact!

Today we continued to work on building stamina on independent reading. This will be a component of our Daily 5 reading program that we are slowly building up to.

We have started reading James and the Giant Peach as a class read aloud. The kids are enjoying the descriptive language. We are working on visualizing literature as a reading skill. When you read aloud to your kids, I encourage you at times to ask them to close their eyes and picture the scene. The kids did some interesting impressions of Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker from the book today!

The kids took the first half of a math pre-assessment today. It is a review of content they learned last year. I will give the second half tomorrow.

We did a little art project today to continue getting to know each other. We created Monster Glyphs. A glyph is like a code that needs to be cracked. Each Monster Glyph tells a little bit about each kid, from how many letters are in their name to how many siblings they have. The glyphs are hanging outside of our room. I will post the clues to them once I get them printed (I am waiting on Client Support to connect my wireless printer to my computer.)

I decided to start Everyday Mathematics today. On Friday I will be sending home their at home materials for this. Today we did the first lesson, which is about number lines and sequences. Ask your child what the word sequence means. We practiced filling in spaces in a number line to show that numbers in a sequence are in order.

I am HOPING to send home those M.O.O.S.E. binders tomorrow. The copiers have been out of/low on toner, so I haven't been able to copy what goes in it.

Update on the air - Becky and Myana are VERY aware of the air condition in our room. They are doing their best to get this problem solved. They have to go through APS to deal with problems like these, and Becky and Myana have been in contact with them everyday working hard to help us.
The A/C guy came and was convinced whatever he did on the control panel fixed it, but he was obviously incorrect because no air is blowing out still and the room has been clocking in at 87 degrees. Becky is trying to get us a portable A/C in the meantime. Thank you for your patience with this.

Thanks,

Melissa