Whew!!! Our first week is done.....I am absolutely in love with my class but wowza am I exhausted!!! I wanted to share a few of the things we did this week.....some things are done and some are still a work in progress...lol.
We did a few team building/getting to know you activities:)
Of course we had to Save Fred!!
I had the kids work in partners. Each team gets a gummy worm (Fred), a gummy ring (life preserver), a cup (boat), and each student gets a paper clip. Put the worm and ring under the cup. They have to get the worm in the ring and back into the cup/boat right side up, without touching anything with their hands....they can use the paper clips only:)
The kids absolutely loved this activity! Great teamwork fun!
We also did some puzzles (this activity was an idea from my FAB teammate...I will catch a pic of her sometime;)
I grabbed these cute puzzles from Dollar Tree. I got one puzzle for each team (my desks are in groups of 4 and 5)
It was so fun walking around and listening to their "game plan" as to how each team was going to get their puzzle together the fastest. Some did the outside edges first...others picked "parts" and put them together.
I absolutely LOVE how this team finished their last piece!!!! They all put it in together!!!!
Morning Math Meeting is in FULL SWING! Trained on the first day and wow have they got it!!
You can hear a pin drop when they go to the carpet to work! Makes this teacher's heart happy!
I have done several read alouds:)
Love these books by Maria Dismondy! I use them every year. Great for the beginning of the school year.
We have already started our reading response journals and I am already so impressed with what my kids are writing...in only week one:)
We have also been discussing sequence and summaries. This book is hilarious and a great one to review sequence:)
Daily 5 is also in motion. We had our "Just Right Book" lesson.
It is evident that most of these kiddos have been trained in Daily 5 before AND that they LOVE to read.....would you believe we hit 15 minutes stamina already?!?!?!? I wouldn't either but it happened:)
So because of that we gave Daily 5 rotations a little try today and I was super impressed. The ONLY thing we really need to work on is our transitions.....a little chatty but it's only week one and we are rolling on Daily 5 and Math Workshop so this teacher is happy:)
Some of the kids got to read with the hermit crab reading buddies during Read to Self:)
These past 2 days we started a wonderfully fun STEM activity from
Smart Chick. She has FAB STEM activities:)
LOVE this activity! The kids really had fun learning about Morse code. First we made a circle map with all different kinds of communication, past and present. They really impressed me with all their responses. Then they wrote their names in Morse Code and we are now working on beads that spell their name in Morse Code.
We have a few other projects in the making that I will share later. It has been a tiring but wonderful week. Hope you all have a great weekend:) Pop back by Monday for Monday Made It:)