First Three Weeks

The first three weeks of school have flown by. How can that be? It feels like just yesterday I was walking the aisles of Walmart in awe of the brightly colored school supplies. Folders, notebooks, and highlighters, oh my… sticky notes, paper clips, and erasers, oh my…

September is one of my favorite times of the year. I love the excitement of back-to-school. It’s a fresh start, a new beginning, an adventure just waiting to embark on… I have 25 energetic and enthusiastic learners this year.  We have spent our first weeks together learning each other’s names and getting to know one another, setting up our class agreement, and creating our class mission statement. We have also been busy establishing routines and expectations.  We are off to an awesome start. We have also:

·         learned what real reading is

·         built up our stamina for Read to Self and Read to Someone during Reader’s Workshop

·         Started small, individual Guided Reading groups

·         Begun taking home “Just Right” books to read to our family members

·         Settled into our Writer’s Workshop routine

·         Explored counting strategies

·         Developed and shared different strategies for solving story problems

·         So much more…