Friday, August 30

 Hi families,

Thank you for visiting the blog! The classroom blog is a great way to stay caught up with what we're doing in class, as well as upcoming events, field trips, volunteer opportunities, etc. I will do my best to update every day with a brief summary of the day's highlights. 

So far, we've had a wonderful start to the year. 

We've spent a lot of time going over classroom expectations and building routines, such as "Morning Math", and Daily LA. The students have completed writing and art work meant to help me and their classmates get to know them better. We did a journal writing task where students shared about their interests and things we have in common, as well as an art project where we made personalized hexagons and put them up like a big Catan board on the blackboard. 

 For Morning Math (math practice completed independently by students first thing each morning), we've focused on reviewing addition and subtraction, as well as multiplication and division for Grade 4s, or Grade 3's who are looking for a challenge.

My first impressions are incredibly positive. The students have been so kind to me and one another, and we haven't had any issues with clean-ups, noise, or work completion. In fact, they finished all the work so quickly today that I had to borrow an extra task from Ms. G next door. 

Today we had our first spelling lesson, which I will describe in detail in the next post.

It's going to be a great year. Please check back soon and have a nice weekend!

Zac