On Wednesdays, we go to PE with Coach Mullis to exercise and play games. Exercise makes our hearts happy and healthy! We always start with our warm up routine – stretching to touch our toes, reaching up high to the sky, “riding the bicycle” (laying on our back and pretending to pedal a bike), and doing sit ups. Then we travel around the gym to get our hearts pumping.
Today in PE we were working on playing balloon volleyball!
At the end of PE we always sing the “goodbye” song. PE is fun!
Parents – Each afternoon as part of your child’s homework, I ask that you practice communication with them by having them tell you about their day. To help with this, they bring home a daily journal page. They should be able to use this page to tell you what month and day it is, what class we went to, and anything special that happened that day. They should also be able to tell you whether they had a great day, OK day or not so good day.
This is how that page gets completed! In class each afternoon, we review the calendar from circle time then we mark the month, day and date on our journal pages. We circle what class we went to and any special events as well. By going over this in the morning at circle time, again in the afternoon when doing journals, with you in the afternoon, and one last time the next morning when they go over their journal pages one last time when they tell their peer buddy about yesterday then put their page in their binder.the students get lots of practice on calendar skills, communicating about their day, and using future and past tense words. They also work on their memory as they think back to what they did.
On Tuesday afternoons we go to Music and have fun with Mr. Thornton! We enjoy playing instruments, singing and listening to songs. Today we practiced playing drums fast and slow then shaking scarves fast and slow.
On Friday afternoons, we go to art with Mrs. Tilson. This past Friday we worked on patterns then got to make a collage with different colored shapes. We love art!
To celebrate the one hundredth day of school on Monday, we collected and counted sets of 100. We also went on a number hunt through our school and found numbers 1-100, built 10 sets of 10 blocks to make one hundred, and counted to 100 by ones, twos, fives, and tens.
We usually finish lunch a few minutes before Mr. Anglin gets back from his lunch break, so Mrs. Mays is in the classroom with all the students alone. After we finish up in the kitchen, we get out our handwriting books and each student does a page in their book while the others practice sitting quietly and waiting for their turn. Here is a video from yesterday.
Here’s Mrs. Mays showing us how we wash our hands and brush our teeth at school. Parents, if you can set up your bathroom with similar materials in a similar arrangement, you can work on the same steps at home. Some of my students can do both of these activities with very little assistance, all of them are making very good progress!
Washing Hands:
Brushing Teeth:
(*Disclaimer – We had already cleaned up the bathroom before we filmed this, putting things up so the custodians could mop. The trash can and laundry basket are usually right there ready for the students)
Yesterday was Cassius’s birthday but Mrs. Mays was out of the classroom for most of the day in meetings so we celebrated today. Happy Birthday Cassius!!
(Looks like I had his hat on BACKWARDS! Oops!)
Seth, Brandon and Ashley show us how to brush our teeth!
Each student has their own toothbrush and tube of toothpaste labeled with their name. Mrs. Mays lays out a clean washcloth and new paper cup for each student.
