Back into routines!

Well we come to the end of our second week back at school from holiday break. Somehow that first week back feels like the first week of school again. Trying to get kids back into routines and struggling with getting up at 5:30 in the morning.

Since we have been back we have been busy. To begin with, our intern began last Thursday (Ms. Peters). She is in her final stage of education and will be teaching full time in a couple weeks. She is excited about getting to know your child and learning from them as well. She has a lot to offer and will continue to make every day a positive learning environment for your child. Having an intern is a great experience and the kids love her already. We are finishing up our current math book and will begin working on new investigations with counting and surveys. It is a fun book and the kids will love it. In Reader's Workshop we have been working on reading strategies that will help us become better readers. Make sure you ask your child daily to tell you what strategy we worked on and have them practice that with his / her book in a bag. In Writer's we have been revisiting narrative writing. We are learning how to write fictional stories which include beginning, middle, and end. I can't wait to post their work up next week. Science has been a lot of fun for the last two weeks as we learn about sound. We have been exploring what makes sound and what needs to happen for sound to occur. For the last two days we have been making items that are easily used for sound. We were unable to finish out exploration today but will finish tomorrow. I will post pictures this weekend of our fun filled science lessons.

Over the next couple weeks I will be finishing up end of the 9 weeks running records and complete our state assessment. Make sure your child gets plenty of rest and is at school every day.

We are almost at the half way point...let's keep up all the great work!