September 4 - 7

This week was so much fun! On Tuesday, we started a Self-Portrait project that you can now admire in the hallway by our classroom. Students looked at themselves in the mirror and drew what they saw. On Wednesday, we opened the math shelf which was very exciting for some students! I introduced the students to the "works" (what I call items that children can play with/work on) on the math shelf, and all of the teachers worked with individual students throughout the week on math activities. By completing works like the Bead Stair, the Hundreds Board, the object/numeral matching basket, and other fun math activities, children worked on their ability to count accurately, recognize numerals, and put numbers in order. All of these are baseline skills that will help your child with more advanced math skills in the future. On Friday, Mrs. MacQueen came back to read more Pete the Cat books with us which the children loved! The biggest focus over the past two weeks has been social-emotional skills and classroom routines, both of which have been taught explicitly and repetitively. The children have been blowing me away with their abilities to talk through problems and verbalize their feelings, so we are definitely off to a very good start! Looking forward to another great week!