A Little More About the 3rd Day of School!

A lot of our day today was focused on being a good listener and what that looks like and we practiced this position many, many times!  :)

The brief post earlier today was when I introduced the kids to our classroom blog/website.  They were very excited and had a lot of questions about how it "works".  I explained that one of our classroom jobs will be for one student, every day, to share something on the blog (by taking time at the end of the day to type a short sentence or two) about something fun or exciting we did or learned about that particular day.  I think that they will find this to be a very fun job among our other classroom duties. :)  While showing them the blog, I shared my previous posts and they were fascinated with the first picture of our classroom I posted on here (when it was completely BARE).  They could not believe this was the same room, so I guess that is a positive thing! :)  Students will begin writing on the blog next week, with my own follow up comments, so stay tuned for that!

Today we read a number of books, the first How I Spent My Summer Vacation by Mark Teague.  We will be reading a number of Mark Teague books over the next couple of weeks.  They are great for teaching character lessons and they're pretty humorous too!  After reading the book, the kids wrote about their own summer vacations.

We read Chrysanthemum (the mouse named after a flower who is made fun of because of her name) and we also read The Name Jar (about a Korean girl who comes to America and is embarrassed of her Korean name and finds a jar full of name suggestions on her desk at school).  After reading the two books we completed a Venn Diagram together to compare and contrast the two stories.

We began a math activity where the students are completing "Get to Know You" graphs and we almost finished gathering our data of our classmates birthday months.  We will finish that graph tomorrow and continue creating many other graphs over the next few days.

Parents-it is going to be another very warm day tomorrow, so please dress your child in cool clothes and send a water bottle!  Many of the kids said they did not feel well today, and I think it was due to the heat!  I have both of our fans going and we took water breaks, but please encourage them to stick it out through the day tomorrow! :)  Also, I sent home our first book order tonight.  If you choose to order books for your child, the orders are due back to me by next Friday, August 31st.  If at all possible, please write a check for your order (to the book company).

Our self portraits from the first day are hung! :)  I think they look great and I have a number of artists in class!

Tomorrow is Friday!  Check back for the end of the week post!

Mrs. Clough