We began our second week with a welcome back greeting at our morning meeting. It was great to see everyone again after the Labor Day weekend. This week we began sharing with our All About Me theme, it's fun getting to know each other through this process. Thank you for your help putting together the 4-5 items to share. We also played a game called "Roll a Topic" I sent home an example thinking that this may be a fun way to have conversations about school at home, you could change the theme to represent whatever topic you'd like.
During our math time, we began our week exploring clocks. As mathematicians we learned about inventory, it's purpose, different strategies to use and ways to count. We also created as many shapes as we could with isosceles triangles following 4 constraints, we came up with at least 7 ways. I sent a copy of this home, just in case you wanted to try it together. Our class is making creative, intelligent observations on our number corner calendar this month.
Our author study, to kick off our school year, is Peter Reynolds. This week we read The Dot, Ish, Happy Dreamer & Sky Color. We used watercolors to create dots, we used quiver vision to make a dot 3D and we sang The Dot Song, multiple times. I've added the link to my sidebar if you'd like to listen.
We enjoyed playing second-grade community games outside at the end of each day. It's fun to play tag games together.
Our STEM activity this week was called Help Harry. Our class not only created perches from limited materials, they also listened to each team explain their process and compliment them on something they did well.
Our field trip to celebrate Dot Day at Oakledge is Friday, September 14th. We will be out of the building 8:45-:12:15. We will be back at school in time for our early dismissal at 12:30. We will eat a bag lunch, from home, at Oakledge. No chaperones are needed for this trip.
I'm so excited for our first Monday together! I hope you had a great weekend.
Jen Belisle
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