Back
to School!
What
a fantastic first week. I love my
students already and am so excited for the challenge they will bring me this
year.
My
focus this first week was to find out how my new bunch does with directions and
how independent they are. As I use both guided reading and guided math it is essential
that my students be able to work independently or with small groups.
I
started the year with an activity the very first day. The students were given
written directions and a check list of stations they had to visit inside the
classroom. They had an activity to
complete at each station. It was a great way for me to observe how independent
and capable my third graders are.
Here
are a few of the stations:
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| Students picked two pencils and sharpened them for our classroom set. |
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| Say Cheese! Great way to get a picture of each student in class. |
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| We can't wait to see how much they grow by the end of third grade. |
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| Estimating is part of our Maths curriculum in 3rd grade. This helped me see who understands that concept. And who doesn't love peanut m&m's. =0) |
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| I asked students to sign there name to our anchor chart. |
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| At this station students wrote their birthday next to their name. Of course this gave me some insights into who understands how to write a date in dd.mm.yy format. |
The winner of the estimation was off by only 6 and received his own little goodie bag of m&m's as a prize.
I've also included pictures of my completed classroom. I should say completed for now. It changes all the time as most learning spaces do. I am not big into classroom themes. I think they can shift the focus from student centered environment to a teacher's decoration project. Having said that, I do choose a simple color theme each year. This year I chose primary colors and I like how bright the classroom is looking.
Enjoy the pictures and see you soon!
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