The first week of school is in the books, and we're having a great time getting to know one another and are settling into our classroom routines.
Some of the "beginning of the year" activities we did this week include:
• get to know you class scavenger hunt
• working as homeroom classes to create class rules
• reviewing/practicing our school wide refocus procedure
• learning how to "switch" classrooms
• using the mobile laptop lap to review how to open a word processing document and learning to save on our flash drives
We've also completed most of our beginning of the year assessments (we'll do MAP testing and DRA reading assessments in September - more on both of those later), and are ready to split into reading groups (which we'll begin on Monday). All students will receive the same core instruction, covering 3rd grade skills and reading shared stories from our reading anthology and working on reading strategies. Within the groups we will also spend part of our class time teaching guided reading, or smaller reading groups based upon students's reading abilities.
Please take a moment to read the posts about other happenings this week - there are several new posts, so you may need to click "older posts" at the bottom to see them all. In addition, if there are pictures on the blog that you would like, simply right click on the photo to copy/paste to your computer, or Mac users can just drag the image to your desktop. The pictures are of high enough quality that you can get them printed (ie. for a scrapbook or photo album) if you wish.
We look forward to another super week!
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