SOAR Reward: Students brought in their stuffed animal this week and it traveled around the classroom to keep them company.
Compliment Circle: We started today with our end of week compliment circle, either giving or receiving a compliment from our peers.
Go Noodle! Break: Sometimes we get up and DANCE to get the wiggles out :) Check out www.gonoodle.com!
Reading: This week we continued to practice using our super reading powers. We practice retelling our stories and giving a book introduction. We also did some other reading skills such comparing and contrasting and looking at sentences verses sentence fragments. Students practiced reading out of their book boxes and reading to their partner.
Literacy Centers: Students worked on middle vowel sounds in words at the ABC center this week. Students read Pumpkin Hill at the listening center and read books on their own independent level on Raz Kids and Epic using their iPads. At the pumpkin center, students wrote adjectives describing a pumpkin as well as did a "write the room" activity where they walk around the find words and write them on their clipboard that go with a theme (fall).
Second Steps: Our second steps lesson this week talked about how two people can have different feelings about the same thing. We talked about how some people like some things that others may thing are scary.
We also read Lying Up a Storm. The book was about a little boy names Levi who was always telling little lies. His mom said his inside sun is going way and dark clouds are forming over him. We talked about what this meant and how lying gives you uncomfortable feelings. He was lying to sounds cool to his friends and make excuses for himself. In the end, he learned that lying just makes the situation worse and leaves you with stormy clouds above. It was a great lesson!
Making Pumpkins: We made pumpkins with different feelings. We wrote " _______ pumpkin feels _______."
Next week is Red Ribbon Week! On Wednesday, students may dress as a storybook character for Halloween if they choose. No scary costumes or weapons please.
