First Day with ALL the Kids--Wednesday, Sept 16

Wow!  The Monday and Tuesday kids mixed very well together.  We have an awesome class!

In the morning, we worked on beginning, middle and end of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.  We watched the book on YouTube a couple of times.  The kids did great at figuring out what happened at what time in the story.  We learned a new poem "Time For School."  Ask your child to sing it for you (they might need a few more days to completely memorize it).  We put our poem in our poetry journals and illustrated the poem.  How cool is that?  We went to music and had our first sub, but the student teacher did a great job.  We then counted to 100 by exercising and then sorted buttons and played with shapes.  We of course ended the day with some play time.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom activity.  Karen, Zach and Cooper are working hard at our floor table.

Westley chose a "sitting on the floor" table all to himself 

(well, he did have his reading buddy with him.)

Look at those happy workers.

Josiah and Emily liked our tables with chairs today.  They were very focused.

All these girls chose to use on of the standing tables to do their work.  Look at those happy girls.

Jacob P. and his reading buddy at a standing table.

So cute!

Reading time.

Jazmin worked hard at illustrating her poem.

Rahel read to her reading buddy.

Isabella was very focused on her book.

Zach and Kaden are not asleep...really...just a bad camera moment 

but they look so cute reading together that I still had to post their picture.

I love buddy reading and so do James and Devin.

Emily is enjoying the story.

Button sorting activity.  Yes, I had buttons all over, but it was fun!

Shapes activity. Directions: do whatever you want with them, but keep them on the table.

More buttons.