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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Thursday Thrills!

Today I could see kids starting to settle into our classroom routines. We reviewed and practiced what we learned yesterday, then worked on some routines. In readers' workshop we are working on what it looks like and what it sounds like. We discoverd that there are three ways to read a book: read the words, read the pictures, retell the story. Then we began building our stamina for reading.

We also learned about three more cool tools: pick up/arrival for students driven to school, hallway procedures, and bathroom procedures. Good Job, students!!!!

We began our calendar activities. This is an activity the child of the day will eventually be responsible for each day. Tomorrow, we will learn about our own calendar activities that we need to do independently before math workshop begins.

We began our social studies unit on laws and rules. We read the book We the People and learned about how our school and classroom rules compare with laws and rules in our community.

We also had a brief introduction to our Writers' Notebook. They each have one now and tomorrow morning, I will review it again, and then give them a chance to write.

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