First I wanted to say thank you for popping by to read our classroom blog. Life can go by so fast that I wanted to provide you with just a brief summary of somethings we are doing and learning at school. If you have any questions or comments feel free to email me or send me a note. I want to make this for you! So I am always welcome to feedback :)
Fine Motor Work
One area that I try to work on a lot at the beginning of the year is strengthening students fingers! We draw and write every single day so our fingers need to build up stamina too! This week students got to use Theraputty which is sort of like silly putty except, it is very difficult to stretch, thus strengthening your fingers as you play with it! Win win! At home you can help by supporting your child's pencil grip and having them do any type of tracing, connecting the dots, lacing or beading. You will see some more fine motor pictures of beading and weaving in the next section.
Centers Expectations
This week was all about practicing our centers time. This is basically station work where students are assigned a table and have a few quiet activities they can choose from while I pull small groups of students to read/write with them. Students got to explore our classroom library, beading and weaving, as well as whiteboards and playing learning games on iPads. We have been practicing the 3 rules of centers: using a whisper voice, working the whole time, and putting things back how you found them. They have really been doing a great job! This week we will be making the centers a little bit longer as we build our stamina!
Classroom Agreements
Now that we are 12 days into Kindergarten we were able to have a discussion about things students want to learn in Kindergarten and what we have to do as a class to help each other learn those things. The picture of our poster below shows 3 rules or agreements that the students helped come up with as well as some pictures with those rules. The pictures help them to have a visual of what each of those rules look like in our class. There are some empty boxes because we are going to keep adding pictures as we experience more things in class this week!
Thank you so much for checking out our blog! Stay tuned next week for photos from our Jog-a-thon, our first time at Playworks and more!
Smiles,
Miss Adams
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