Welcome to the first blog post of the school year! On this blog I will post pictures weekly of activities and events that your child participates in at school. I will also post reminders, tips about how to help your child at home and more! Please let me know if there is anything you want me to include that I am not currently; I am very open to feedback! Enjoy!
Writing Everyday
In my K/1 class your students will be engaging in Literacy centers daily, and with that I will have them writing or drawing every day! To build early literacy skills I find it is so important for students to be comfortable and used to drawing/writing to communicate their ideas. This week I introduced our writing center and students used the writing prompts on the wall to draw and label pictures about themselves. I am so impressed with their quality of work already! Here is an example of a student labeling their picture of markers!
Learning Tools
After setting our routines and figuring out how the school and our classroom works, your students were then introduced to varying learning tools to help them be successful at school. The first are called whisper phones (which you will see below). These phones allow them to whisper into the device which then magnifies the sound in their ear, so they can whisper read without distracting their peers! The students have loved using them and I have been very impressed with how quiet they are able to be during centers time. The second tool that I introduced are quiet headphones. These are essentially headphones without the cord, but they muffle the sounds in the room. Students are encouraged to use these if they are being distracted by the noise, or if they are trying to focus on an activity. These have been quite popular this week and next week we will continue to practice deciding when we need the headphones to be successful versus when we just want to wear them :)
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| A student using quiet headphones to focus on her work. |
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| A student uses a whisper phone to read quietly to himself. |
Coming Up This Week!
This week we are beginning our unit on apples and fall. We will be gathering leaves, doing taste testing of apples and doing writing around how apples grow. Pictures will be coming soon!
Also, on Thursday is our school's fundraiser the Jog-a-thon! Please contact me if you have any questions and feel free to come out and walk with your student!
That is all for now but I love every day I get to spend with your children. It is going to be an amazing school year!
Smiles,
Miss Adams
