A New Start

News from Room 15

September 15, 2019

We learned:

·      How to practice taking deep breaths.

·      Our classroom procedures for:  packing our folders with our mail from our mailboxes and returning empty folders to school.

·      How a monarch emerges from its chrysalis, we let our monarch free this week, we called her “a new start”.

We experienced:

·      Math menu with have to’s and choices.

·      Reading aloud Katie Woo by Fran Manushkin

·      Learning to tell time by collecting minutes and hours in number corner.

·      Writing our classroom rules and agreements together.

·      Reading The Golden Rule by Ilene Cooper and I am Peace by Susan Verde.

·      Practicing together as a second grade and running the assembly about mindfulness.

·      Reading Stick and Stone by Beth Ferry and creating a class book about how we can stick up for our friends.

·      mindfulness practice with our hands noticing how our sense of touch is emphasized when we can’t use our other senses as well as building vocabulary to describe how things feel.

Other things to ask your child about:

·      Introduction to chromebook use

·      Our all school recess

·      Lunchroom choices, who are they sitting with, how’s it going?

Please note:

·      Friday, September 20^th – Early Release at 12:30 p.m.

I hope you enjoyed the weekend,

Mrs. Belisle

jbelisle@sbschools.net

**We are brave and kind in our classroom.  Each member of our class was both of these this week in many ways.