What a busy day! After the students came in, checked folders for notes, put their chair down, and did smartboard attendance (all independent now!), I had my teacher assistant for the week come up and run our calendar. We talk about what day of the week it is, what day it was yesterday, and what day it will be tomorrow. We talk about what month we're in and what the weather is like. Everyone will get a chance to be the teacher assistant, along with our other class jobs such as sanitary patrol (they clean tables at end of day with wipes), line leader, paper passer, electrician, custodian (throws away trash from table trash buckets) and librarian. 

During language arts we learned the poem "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt," and talked about how many names we have. We practiced introducing ourselves saying, "Hello, my name is_____."

We reviewed the letter M, and listened for m at the beginning and ending of words. This was tricky!! We had to really stretch out the word and listen closely. The students did an activity with this, cutting out and gluing an m to the beginning box, or the ending box depending where they heard m. 

In math we continued to work to build concepts of the numbers 1-5. We used our math trays and worked on showing a given number with math tiles. The boys and girls worked to build language by describing to the class how they had arranged their tiles; in a line, in a square, red-blue-red, next to or beside the number. 

We read the book The Hungry Caterpillar, and counted as the caterpillar ate through a variety of foods. 

The students did some MAP testing in the computer lab. When asked at the end of the day what their favorite part of tuesday was, they all replied "Computers!!!" If computers = testing, then I really do have a rare and wonderful group of kiddos :)