We had a pretty good Monday. We began Language Arts by reading a poem about grandparents. The students helped me clap for each word in every line of the poem. This was tricky because we are used to clapping for syllables and not whole words. We got better as we practiced. The students then came up to the smartboard and helped find the letters r, t, s, and m in the poem.The letter n was introduced. We practiced writing an uppercase N and lowercase n with our magic pens (our fingers). Then we learned the word the. We practiced using it in a sentence.
For station work the students did a handwriting activity with the letter N. Then we worked on tracing N and coloring a picture to uncover a photo of a nut. Then the boys and girls walked around the room and got autographs of their classmates, working on penmanship and name spelling :) I pulled small groups of 2-3 students aside to read a book to me called
The Park.
For a brain break we danced to the songs Animal Action and Freeze Dance. Then we got into math. We practiced our horizontal graphs, this time making up stories to graph about (i.e. Last night I had 5 apples and 3 oranges. Show this on your graph). Students helped me come up with short stories like these. We worked on our math vocabulary by using words to describe our graphs such as more, greater, fewer, less then, how do you know?
We had just enough time for a quick snack of goldfish and a story before we headed home.
Tomorrow I will be out of the room for an hour to work with other teachers and our math curriculum, and Wednesday I will be in the school but at benchmark meetings. I talked about this with the students, and they are ready to show our subs how great of a class we are! :) :)