ask me about Thursday, October 3 and friday, october 4, 2024

We had a quick SEL lesson Thursday about self-control.  We read the story Oh No, George!  This is one of my favorite stories because George is a dog who sturggles with self-control.  Ask me to tell you about the events in the story that showed George had some trouble with self-control.  I hoped to follow up the story with a quick activity that called on children to sit without moving toward or popping bubbles I was spraying across the group.  I had my wand ready, it was lighting up and the fan blowing, but no bubbles would come out.  I took the advice of the children to bang it on my desk, but that still didn't work!  We'll try it some other tiem, but the important part was that the children enjoyed the story and did a great job retelling the events in the story.  We are working on trying to remember the events in order and this book was a good length to practice that!  Here's a little trailer about this great book so you can see how lovable George looks!

We also worked on understanding the word boast better.  We don't hear that word as much these days, but we do hear brag, so we went more in-depth with bragging and/or boasting.  We read a book called I'm the Best, by Lucy Cousins.  This book is about a dog who brags to his animal friends that he is better than they are at different things.  Ask me to tell you about what the dog thought he was the best at in the middle of the story. 

We are working hard in math to count accurately.  We are trying to overcome the need to be first, or to count the fastest, because that is when some of the children make mistakes.  We are working with different strategies to be more consistent and accurate.  
Have a great weekend!
​Miss Wolfe