ask me about monday, october 7, 2024

We had a busy morning!  We started with a picture talk.  I shared five photos with the students and asked them how they go together.  The children talked to their partners and we added some words to the pictures to help find how the photos are connected.  The children are really getting good at talking to their partners, listening to others and making some guesses.  We are still getting a little bit of repetition, but I think reminding them that we are all learning together has given them more confidence to share even when they are not sure they are correct.  The connection all five pictures has is the five senses, and tomorrow we will begin a new unit in CKLA about the five senses.  This is a shorter unit which will be just a little more than a couple weeks.
We had a bus evacuation drill this morning.  The children were shown how to get off the bus through the back door if necessary.  Ask me to tell you what we need to do if we can't go through the front door.

We took a comprehension and rhyming test today.  The children had to remember details about the nursery rhymes, vocabulary and fables to answer the questions.  From what I have seen so far, the children did pretty well.  These scores will be submitted to the county to be used in evaluating this new program.  Other tests in the future may be used as evidence of learning.  We took it slow today, and I did a little coaching of what they would need to think about as I asked the questions.  The biggest problem we have is children copying from other children.  I spread them out but they still were looking at other students' papers.  So together, we ordered some cardboard dividers we will use in the future.  This is just one way we are evaluating the students' progress.
We started a new unit in CKLA Skills today.  We are now working with sounds.  We worked with the m sound today, /m/.  We used mirrors to see what our mouth was doing, and talked about what our teeth, tongue and lips were doing to make the sound.  We also put our hand on our throat to feel the vibration when they make the sound of m.
We met our Bear Buddies this afternoon.  The children in Mrs. Ukhoa's class in third grade are our buddies.  The purpose of today was to meet our buddy and get to know them.  We also made pumpkins with them.  We thought about questions we could ask our buddies, but we really had such a short period of time to make the pumpkin and get all the buddies together that I doubt there was much talking going on.  Ask me to tell you who my Bear Buddy is.  Some kids have two due to our class size being smaller than third grade.

Have a great evening!
​Miss Wolfe