Dear RiverRun Families,
This has been a wonderful first three days of school. I am sure you have noticed some of your children tired when they arrive home. All the children have started to get to know each other and everyone is working well as a peaceful community of learners.
This week we have spent time getting to know our environment and how we will be working together. The first two days we had whole group lessons to familiarize everyone with some works that can later be used independently. Some of the lessons we had were:
-Parts of a flag
-The children made their own flags about themselves
-Morning meditation/deep breathing started on the second day
-Classroom jobs where shown and and assigned for Monday
-Land and water forms (cape and bay, peninsula and gulf, isthmus and strait, group of lakes and archipelago)
-ordinal number
I began Writers Workshop on Thursday. A mini-lesson on writing will be given daily on techniques authors use to write and all the children will spend about a half hour writing after these mini lessons. On Friday I introduced the children to their daily work plans and we talked about the independent work period. They saw how I will do small group lessons as their classmates work on their own to learn and master all the subjects they have address on their own work plans.
First years had lessons on even and odd numbers, reading, some on the trinomial cube and bead chains. The elders in the class did comprehension cards and those students returning jumped right into their normal work period.
Monday will bring another great week of learning.
A few reminders:
Please have the permission slips signed by Monday and the $3 sent for our outing to the Schenectady Post Office scheduled for Tuesday.
Wednesday September 14th at 6:00 is our back to school night meeting. It is important to come to this meeting, a good deal of information will be given at this time.
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