ask me about Thursday, october 29, 2020

It's been a busy week, and I'm sorry I've not blogged!  I had training this week after class in math and in the new report card system.  
Monday, Mrs. Abramson, came in to help me with teaching the children to use See Saw, and to help them learn to toggle to a different website while staying in Zoom.  I will be sending you information about See Saw so you can visit this site with your child.  The great thing about See Saw is that it does everything I need it to do!  The children will be able to submit work to me, take pictures of work, make short videos to answer prompts and explain their thinking.  The children were really patient in waiting for help, and although we couldn't get to everyone then, hopefully the information I send you will help you get them started.  I am pretty sure once they start using it, they will be able to do many things independently.  
We have read a couple fables and talked about the characteristics of fables.  We also continued to identify key events in stories, for example in The Tortoise and the Hare, the hare took a nap by the tree would be a key detail. We compared characters from two fables we read.  We compare the mouse and the tortoise.  These lessons connect to the writing prompts, so we also wrote a narrative about what the charters were feeling.  We used the illustrations in the story to help with an idea for what the character might be thinking.  I model my thinking and idea, then model the writing, and now am starting to pull back some so the children can begin writing more on their own.  We are going through the writing process of thinking of the idea we will write, rehearsing it with our study buddy, then writing it.  We have some children share their writing when finishing.  
In math, we working with drawing sets with one more and one less, counting items in a circular arrangement, and ordering numbers and sets from 1 - 10 and 10 - 1.  I also did a few checks to fill in any gaps in my assessments for this unit that we have finished.  We will be starting a short unit on geometry soon.
In Social Studies, we continued talking about leaders.  We have learned about George Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr. so far.  We will continue to talk about leaders next week as well.  
This week, in the morning when the children came into the Zoom room, I put them in a breakout room with other children so they can get to know each other better.  It's random, basically whoever comes in around the same time.  We talked about how to talk in a small group, take turns, and encourage others to talk.  We will continue to work on this next week as well!

Have a nice evening!
​Miss Wolfe