Dear Core 2 Families, First of all THANK YOU!! Thank you for all of the school supplies and the tables and chairs for our outside eating area! You are awesome! Thank you for letting me teach your wonderful kiddos and for beign so thoughtful in our afterschool meetings! I cannot tell you how much I truly love my job, and that comes for getting to work with all of you! We had a wonderful first day(s) of school! We started getting to know each other and our classroom. Both cohorts seemed to be coming together in a really beautiful way by the end of the day. I love getting to know all of my new students, and as usual I am beyond impressed by their kindness and curiosity towards the world and each other! This next week is going to be spent getting to know our first project. Please check out the project overview if you have not already. Among other things, you will find some ideas for project home extensions. I would also love if you would take a minute to go check out the Story Corps website: Please spend some time checking out the different resources the sight has to offer! A big piece of our project is going to be getting to know new friends in class and building community as a whole. We will be doing a lot of fun activities in order to find out new things about each other, and to have goofy fun together (the best icebreaker!) Starting on Thursday/ Friday we should be settling into our usual daily schedule. Students will get a chance to meet Patrick this week, and by next week will begin writing with him on a daily basis. We will dive into some math word problems in class, and begin the work of learning how to talk and think about numbers. ST Math will come into play in the next few weeks (thank you for being patient!). On Thursday/ Friday I will begin showing the kids how to find a “just right book.” Some of you are already familiar with this strategy, but if you are not, it is a strategy that students can use to find a book that is right at their reading level. It can be difficult for students to find books that are interesting to them and also the right difficulty level, and so we learn some specific steps to take in order to find a “just right book.” Here is a website with more information on just right books: Here is the poster that we use in class to learn the steps to choosing a “just right book”: I would highly suggest printing out these steps and hanging them up near your child’s homeschooling area. That way they start to build confidence in their ability to pick books for themselves both at home and at school!
I hope you are all having a wonderful first week of homeschooling! Please reach out with any questions you may have! Robin Comments are closed.
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