We have had a great start to the year. Yesterday the students worked on something called Read-To-Self. We discussed the idea of it, what it would look like if a student was independent with it, and how to build stamina when reading to self. The students did a magnificent job with it and really seemed to enjoy the activity. The student also created a drawing of their Hope and Dream for the coming year. Today, the students all shared their illustration with the class. We will use these to develop our classroom rules next week. We also spent some of our morning talking about the words Engaged, Safe, Kind, and Respectful and how they fit into our school's expectations. We discussed what these terms meant and what they would look like, in action, in different areas of the school (i.e. classroom, bathroom, recess, hallway, cafeteria). Both these projects are displayed in the back of the classroom on the green bulletin board.
Below is quick snapshot of the first day of school. The software is something that a friend showed me and I am trying to use it for classroom purposes. I hope you like it.
I hope you have a great weekend.
*Please return the yellow video permission form and the volunteer form.
Peace,
Tom
