American Education Week

In honor of American Education Week, I am going to try to post every night with our special activity of the day and something that has been happening in the classroom recently, along with a teacher tip!  To kick off our "Reading Round-Up" was a whole school 15 minute read this morning.  The teachers knew it was today, just wasn't told at what time.  That just keeps us on our toes!  Here are my firsties reading their books in the hallway:

They just love to look at their library books and were super excited that we got to do it in the hallway!

Another activity that we did today was writing postcards to adults in the school to thank them for all that they do for us on a daily basis.  The students got to pick who they wrote their card to.  We had lots who picked the principal, some who even picked me, and some people that I was so proud of them to think of (cafeteria workers, Title 1 Staff, the janitor, etc).  We will deliver these cards to the appropriate recipients tomorrow.

 

 

On Friday we completed our inquiry project for Lead 21 (our Language Arts curriculum).  The question that the students came up with was, "Who works in the community?"  I was super happy that they came up with such a great question.  So, on Friday each table group made two community buildings and then we combined them together to make a mural.  Then they drew on the community workers that work in those buildings, along with adding other details like cars, clouds, and trees.  I think that they turned out fabo!



 

Teacher Tip of the Day:  Glue a pom-pom onto the end of your dry erase markers.  I used hot glue to adhere the pom-pom to the end of the marker, it eliminates the need for erasers!  The students love the cool erasers and get to pick what color they get.  They also like to use the lid as a prop up for their dry erase board, which in turn improves their handwriting.  A win - win!