First Week!
Wow! What a great first week and what an incredible group of kiddos. The first hour of class I kept telling them that I could not believe it was their first day of first grade because they all seemed to get back into "school mode" pretty quickly - maybe even faster than me! We focused a lot on classroom routines and will continue to develop routines, transitions and expectations throughout these first weeks in order to build a strong learning community. On the first day of school we read "First Day Jitters," a story that talks about how we all get nervous for the first day of school - even teachers! Throughout the week we have been checking our understanding while we read. When you read with your child I encourage you to help them use this strategy - pause and ask "do I understand what just happened?" "what do I know about the characters?" "what is the author trying to tell me?" Asking these questions and modeling that all readers us