Where has the month gone?!

The first month of school has flown by!  And I apologize for not updating sooner but I have been busy!  Here are some pictures of the...what I consider awesome-ness...that the students saw at the beginning of the school year...

This is our "I Can" board.  As students achieve these goals, their names will be placed on the circle.

We have been SO busy learning the routines to make sure we have a great year of school.  We are working on recognizing our names, becoming good listeners, and working with our friends.  Here I go trying to catch y'all up on all of the excitement! On the first day of school I took these pictures to share with parents at Open House!  They were of course a hit!

Some of the themes we have covered are School Days, Physical Me, Family, and Friends.  During School Days we took a tour of our school following clues left behind by Chester the Raccoon from The Kissing Hand.  We also learned about our classroom and the rules and routines for Morning Meeting, going to centers, going to the bathroom, going to lunch,...pretty much everything we have to do at school! We learned the Pledge of Allegiance and created flags of our own.

During Physical Me we talked about the parts of our body and what we do with them.  We practiced drawing ourselves with the help of MatMan in the Handwriting Without Tears program.  We also had fun making ourselves with funny faces!

During Family we discovered that everyone’s family is different but all families love and take care of one another.  We read The Napping House and identified the characters in the story.  We then talked about who lives in our house and who could be napping!

And during our Friends unit we have learned that friends work together, share, and help.  We have had lots of fun working together!  We read The Rainbow Fish and discussed that friends share, sometimes when they don't want to, but because that makes their friends happy!  We then worked together, like a good group of friends, to create our very own rainbow fish and a friendship wreath.

 This past month we also had Open House.  We invited our parents into our classroom.  We had lots of fun showing our parents where we learn.  I made scavenger hunts for the parents to complete when they came in our classroom.  It allowed them to walk around the classroom looking at the different centers we have.  I also had a PowerPoint playing that went through our day.  Using pictures of the students during each activity it showed the parents what their children do everyday.  We would like to send out a big “thank you” to all that came out and showed your support!