The First Week!

We survived the first week of school! It was a busy, crazy and fun week.  I was not able to take as many pictures as I had originally wanted, but I did get some!

We read several books about the first week of school, books about school and a book about what we do when we miss our families! It was great to see how independent all the students became even after just the first week. 

We have learned many things already.  We learned about the rules of our school, classroom, and the  playground.  We learned how to walk in a line, sit on the carpet and follow directions. 

Academically we have learned how to write our name (we will be continuing to work on this for quite some time), we practiced cutting paper, write lines to help with letter formation, glue, color, and the sounds of letters! Personally, zoophonics is my favorite time of the day! :)

On Friday, we did a roll and color for the book "The Kissing Hand".  They had a picture of a raccoon that had numbers on it. They had to roll a dice and color in the corresponding number.  Some students struggled figuring out what the numbers on the dice looked like in written from, but eventually that will be an easy task to do!

We also practice tracing vertical lines.  This is a pre-writing skill that we practice at the beginning of the year so that they are ready to write letters that include vertical lines.  We will also practice horizontal, slanted and circles throughout the next week.

For math we had a number worksheet that had numbers 1-5.  The students were to color the pictures of the raccoons and then put the number of raccoons by each number.  1 to 1 correspondence is a task that we will be continuing to work on for several months.  Some students understand it right away and some take a little more time.  Either way, they will all learn it! :) They enjoyed being able to cut the paper, although that was a tough task in itself! 

That is a summary of the first week of school! I hope your child enjoyed their first week of school as much as I did! I will be posting tomorrow about the BEE Binder along with some changes to our dismissal routines for those that don't already know!

As always, if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to email me or call me (emailing is better than calling over the weekend). 

Enjoy the rest of your weekend,

Mrs. Leopold