September 12, 2022

 Happy Monday!

We have had a wonderful first few days with your children. We have quickly established routines and we are excited to begin our lessons. We've attached a few pictures at the bottom. Enjoy them.

Here are some conversation starters for you. 

Conversation starters-

Be A Perfect Perfect Person In Just Three Days

colossal

bizarre

It's raining cats and dogs.

Tic-Tac-Toe game

Reading

Students have been assigned books to read. During study hall we read for the first 15 minutes. During reading class we have time to silent read as well. Reading nightly at home ( 8-12 pages) usually takes about twenty minutes. There will be evenings that are busier than others. When this happens, if you could keep the book 'alive' by reading aloud for a quick five minutes or talking to you child about their book it will help keep the story moving forward.

We have set up Reader's Notebooks, shared out first Friday poem, and we have listened to the first chapter of Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days.

Language Arts

We have set up our Daily Oral Language and writing notebooks. Students have been introduced to onomatopoeia and we have practiced using sound in our prompts. 

Daily Oral language is where it all happens - grammar and punctuation mini lessons. Students will begin writing out the date and then work on two sentences to correct. We practiced aligning our writing on the margins, writing on the lines, etc. The sentences we correct are about people, places, and events. 

Mr. Wheeler’s classes have also gotten off to a hot start this year. Students spent a ton of time on the first

couple of days getting to know each other through Morning Meeting and activities like Personality Bingo!

Students also spent a lot of time modeling and generating the  expectations which will enable us all to

inhabit a safe, fun, and productive learning environment.  That environment will enable every student to

accomplish incredible things this year!

Over the last couple of days students have also been able to dig into some of the year’s first math content.

They have been introduced to a couple of TANG puzzles, a math game called skyscrapers, and a

challenge puzzle called Ken-Kens! Math is a subject that everyone is capable of excelling in and that

starts with finding joy in playing with numbers.

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