Week 3

This week we read the book, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. I'm sure your child has it memorized!! We got to read the story, listen to it on a CD, sing the song, retell it using a story telling prop, and watch the video! Here are pictures of us decorating a page in our class book, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Look Who is in Our Room!  (We even got to use MARKERS!!)

We also worked on sorting pictures into different categories, and explain why we put them there. In the pictures below we sorting pictures by food, toys, and clothes. (A cherry belongs in food because it's something we eat!)

2 friends working SO hard at cutting!!

We also learned about how to take care of our glue bottles!
 "Dot dot not a lot!"

 We have been singing and learning color words too! I have a DVD called Heidi Songs, which helps us learn how to spell color words. (It will also be used for sight words!)

Singing our "Blue Song"

Week 2

We are starting to work on our curriculum. This week, we got to rotate through the developmental centers (Dollhouse, Blocks, Puzzles, Cars) Ask your child what their favorite center is!

Playing with the cars

Building towers and roads

Setting up the dollhouse

Working together with friends

More tower and castle building

First Week Recap

The first week was a blast!! Boy, was I exhausted!! We worked so hard on learning the classroom and school rules. We also have been working on learning our new school wide discipline plan. Here are a few pictures from our first week.

Dancing along to 5 Little Monkeys

Still smiling!

Ready to go home! Happy Friday!

Meet The Teacher Night

Tonight was meet the teacher night. I saw 15/18 families. It's great because a lot of them are siblings or I had in Jump Start. I am super excited to start the school year. I can tell it will be a great year with lots of learning!

First Day Back! (For teachers that is!)

Today was our first official day of work!! It's great to be back! Today we got to work in our classroom and prep for Meet the Teacher Night as well as the upcoming school year. Here are a few of my projects today!

We are implementing a new school wide behavior system. The students are able to move up and/or down! It will be nice to be uniform throughout the school from class to class.

Here is my Phonogram (Sounds) Rainbow. The focus is to get the kids to magenta by the end of the school year. The kids love it and enjoy moving from color to color. I have done this for 4 years now and have had lots of success with it. This year I updated it by changing the font and adding a border on the cards, as well as making my quilt smaller.  

My neighbor teacher Ms. Coopmans created these rules with the help of pinterest!! I like how simple the rules are. I added cute scrapbook paper for the background!

Do you ever get sick of the same old same old? Well my schedule cards were due for a change. I found these cards made by Cara Carroll (FREE on TPT!) I love the variety. My students live for a schedule (I do too!!)

So just like the Phonogram Rainbow, I made a Sight Word Rainbow to track sight word recognition!