Wednesday, September 3

 Hi parents,

We had another good day today. in the morning, we had a sharing circle to get to know each other better, and then wrote about our summer breaks in our journals. 

In math, the students filled in blank hundreds charts, as a means of reviewing numbers up to 100, and we also discussed skip-counting patterns that the hundreds chart can help with. It's especially good for visualizing skip-counting by 10's, starting at different places.

We did a trial run of 'buddy reading' as part of Daily LA, and the class did really well with this. We might switch up the buddies and do another round of it tomorrow just to be safe, because Buddy Reading is often the station with the highest potential for silliness once the kids have more independence. 

I introduced the students to the 'spelling' routine, which I will post about in a lot more detail at the end of the week. Basically it's the same as last year. There will be weekly words of varying difficulty, focused on a specific letter blend / spelling pattern, and the students will practice those words several times over the course of the week. We'll have a low-stakes quiz at the end of the week. Starting next week, I'll also be posting the words on the blog, but this week, we're just taking it easy and working on them in class.

We read three more stories from Wayside School - the students are really enjoying it.

Have a nice night,

Zac