Sorry I haven’t posted lately. I was going to update the blog during
Thanksgiving break but realized I forgot my camera at school so this will be a
longer post for the last 3 weeks.
It’s been awhile since we’ve had a class pet. We received Hissing Cockroaches
on Wednesday. I’m just praying that they don’t figure out how to make their way
out of the tank. One time, we had a corn snake escape its tank and later found
on campus!
We finished our first Marathon Kids Log. These laps are ran during
WOW time at the end of the day. This time around, I decided to do it individually
so it’s more fair. It is a little bit more work but I didn’t feel like it was
fair for the kids who are running almost a mile everyday compared to the kids
who are not. I have placed them in their daily folders and will be marking
their logs every day at dismissal. Everyone should have received their shirts
during PE on Thursday.
We finally wrapped up our money unit this week. The kids are doing
great counting mixed coins. This upcoming week, we will be starting on
adding/subtracting 10.
Before Thanksgiving break, we learned about the first Thanksgiving.
We made turkeys and wrote about things we are thankful for.
We wrote about “If I had a turkey, I would…”
Mrs. Sheri came and taught us a strategy called “statues.” This is when I call out a Vietnamese sight word and the kids think of a position they can do to represent the vocabulary of that word. The kids have to remember that when they pose, they cannot talk and they have to stay still. This activity also works on body control, which all first graders need ;)
Our schedule was all out of wack this week. I barely had any
teaching time with the students this week. We did a “Holidays Around the
World” with the whole first grade so each day the kids would go on a rotation
around and have a different first grade teacher teach them about a country. The
kids really enjoyed this. Not only did we do this rotation that took up most of
our mornings, but we had guidance, library, computer lab, CLI, and Spanish
lessons two times this week.
The students earned their 5 stars in the cafeteria to earn a party.
They chose a movie/popcorn party on Friday so as they were working on
decorating their Christmas tree, we were enjoying our party at the same time.
