What We Did This Week

We review our Alpha Friends daily.

We introduced the sight word: can

We are “stretching sounds” and recording what we hear in our journals.  We wrote about what we “can” do.

We welcomed many guest readers.  We heard stories read by students in Dearborn High’s Anti-Bullying club and from the Dearborn High football team.

In handwriting we are beginning practice with letters that have straight lines and curves and slanted lines! – this week we practiced R.

In math we continue to practice counting by 5’s and we played a new math game called “Race to Fill the Cup.”

We visited our special classes, Gym, Art, Music and Media.

In Second Steps we talked about stoping “pausing” our frustration and naming what we are feeling.  We added “belly breathing” to calm down before talking to our friends.

We rotated through our Daily 5 Literacy Centers.

We watched the Kindergarten and 1st grade’s spring music concert.

Students who earned the weekly reward party visited with “Papa Doug” who continued to discuss the making of a rainbow and coloring mixing.

In Science we discussed how a rainbow is made and in anticipation of St. Patrick’s day we designed and built traps to catch a leprechaun.  We didn’t catch any but he left us something special…….

Remember students can perform the tasks on the March is Reading Month Calendar at home and with a parent initials can turn it in at the end of the month for a prize.

There is still time to be a guest reader.  We would love to hear you share your favorite story with us!  Email me if you are interested!

ruselij@dearbornschools.org