28Cultivate: Growing Wise in Week Five!

This week things got real. Summer is long gone and we've got our brains buried deep in number sense, paragraphs, good citizenship, and responsibilities.

Here is a look at our week!
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Fun With Tens & Ones

My two favorite parings are learning & moving. This sweet little game (Speedy Musical Chairs) is new to our community and we are so excited! In an effort to solidify our understanding of tens and ones we are moving and grooving! This is for all our kinestetic learners! Enjoy! (click here)

Another way we like to practice our tens and ones, speaking to our visual and written learners, is through the use of white boards! Enjoy! (click here)

Dance Around Words

In this game we have 5 sounds around the room written on white boards. There are 5 groups that must work together and give words to their scribe who writes words with the sound. When the music stops, they must switch!

Our Good Citizen

This is generally what our good citizen poster sharing will look like. I won't be able to put videos up for every good citizens poster share, BUT, I wanted you to see how we use the posters to promote critical thinking and open ended questions. Good Citizen Poster Share (Click here)

Our Good Citizen!

Now You Teach!

My goal is to work myself out of a job! We've got some gifted teachers in this classroom and I LOVE to use their strengths. Through the course of this year, I will be promoting independent learning by making your children the teachers! Here is a perfect example of what that looks like!

Team Based Learning

I love to introduce new sounds through games and team work! Here is a very intense example of our race to /d/ from earlier this week. As you can see, we get very loud and excited about learning.

OPEN For Business!

This is such an exciting week because our classroom library is officially OPENED!!!! We can read to little buddies in comfy and cozy chairs and check out books that are just right for us!

What are you going to teach the world?

After watching this video from our Kid President, I asked this BIG question on Monday morning. In an effort to think globally and into the future I want to get brains turning about what kind of impact they can make on the world. We used this question as a journal entry. Their ideas were AWESOME! As loud and rowdy as we like to get, we also like to be still and reflect. Journaling (click here)

Birthdays!

We had two birthdays this week and both birthday girls brought in some wonderfully healthy snacks! Thank you moms for taking the time to keep our community healthy and strong!

Salsa Rhyme Write

This week we are working hard on rhyming short vowel words! Here we are doing a Salsa Rhyme Write switch! Student's get a card, start making rhymes and when the music stops they have to switch cards with a friend and start all over! Click here to see!

Here is another way we are practicing our rhymes!