Good Afternoon,
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| A student leads the class in reading the morning message. |
I hope everyone had a great weekend. I found myself at a soccer game, x-country race, a wedding, and a date night with my wife. It is always nice to fill the weekend with such self fulfilling events. We started today with our Morning Meeting. The primary goal of my morning meetings is to give students a safe environment that provides a sense of trust, allows all students to feel important, and encourages respectful learning. It also acts as a tool for fostering a positive classroom environment. As a reminder, meeting starts right at 7:40. Please have your child in the classroom by this time. If you find you are consistently 5 minutes late, you may want to adjust the routine to allow your child to be part of this important part of their day and learning. If your child is on time, keep up the great work and a huge thank you from me.
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| Our Number Corner Routine and Display |
In math, the 1st graders continue to build the foundations for learning complements of 10. They used their number racks to build numbers that were flashed to them (using dot cards). Becoming fluent with the complements of 10 is one of the first big milestones in becoming fluent with additive reasoning. The first graders also worked on making the numeral 7 the correct way and continued with number corner routines (calendar). You can see the number corner display in the picture on the right of the screen. Second grade math update can be found on
Mr, Hubbard's blog.
This afternoon Judy, our classroom helper, came in and read
Bear Came Along, by Richard. T. Morris. This book is "a cheerful and action-packed adventure about the importance of friendship and community. Once there was a river flowing through a forest. The river didn't know it was capable of adventures until a big bear came along. ." The students really enjoyed the book and their time with Judy.
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| Judy reading a book to our class |
Today's specials were Music and PE/Health. Make sure to check in with your child about these two specials and all the wonderful things they did with Mr. Hill and Ms. Bataille.
NOTES
*Book orders are due by Friday.
*Tonight your child has a white form in their homework bag. This form is to sign up for a bagged lunch for for Friday's all school hike.
THIS FORM IS DUE TOMORROW. We will be leaving around 9:00 am and hiking at Mad River. Please make sure your child dresses appropriately.
That is all for now. Have a great week.
Peace,
Tommy
