I wanted to take some time this week to share with you a glimpse into our morning. Our mornings are a very busy but very productive time in our day. We start with breakfast and morning centers.
During this time students are allowed to choose from math, reading, phonics, and writing activities that build on skills we are learning and help review skills we have already learned. It is amazing how much work they get in all before 8:30 in the morning and they don't even realize that they are reviewing and learning! After morning centers we have our morning meeting. At morning meeting we start with a greeting so that we can tell all of our classmates good morning. After the greeting we review with a morning message. The message on this particular morning included a question that led to our sorting of characters and settings using the hula hoops.
After morning message we review our calendar skills and patterns then we get to do a GoNoodle activity. If you aren't familiar with GoNoodle (www.gonoodle.com) it is a free online program that has physical activities that students can participate in. We rotate between coordination building activities and dance and even some yoga.
Once all of our morning routines are finished we move into writing.
Once all of our morning routines are finished we move into writing.
At this point in the year we do a whole group lesson to learn about writing strong sentences and review skills needed for writing. After the lesson we have journal writing for 7-10 minutes. When the writing timer goes off we have a time for class authors to share their writing.
I hope you have enjoyed a glimpse into our morning. All of this takes us up to around 9:30. We have a very busy morning but we also have a lot of fun!
This week we also learned about characters and settings. We read the story If You Take A Mouse to School. After reading we talked about the character (the mouse) and the setting (the school). We talked about how we are in a school so if we were the story we are missing the mouse! We made the mouse and wrote about what we thought the mouse might do if he came to school with us. These turned out AWESOME! I've included a youtube link to a video read aloud of the story.
I hope you have enjoyed a glimpse into our morning. All of this takes us up to around 9:30. We have a very busy morning but we also have a lot of fun!
This week we also learned about characters and settings. We read the story If You Take A Mouse to School. After reading we talked about the character (the mouse) and the setting (the school). We talked about how we are in a school so if we were the story we are missing the mouse! We made the mouse and wrote about what we thought the mouse might do if he came to school with us. These turned out AWESOME! I've included a youtube link to a video read aloud of the story.