We met our Buddies!!!

Today we met our 4th grade buddies. For the school year, our class and Mrs. Robinson's Kindergarten class will be sharing Mrs. Varveris' 4th Grade class. We will be meeting about every other Friday to work together on many different activities, mostly doing shared reading. Today, as an icebreaker, students were given "puzzle pieces" with their names, which would connect to their buddy. Once they were found, they worked together to find identify things they both liked or disliked.


Today we reviewed procedure for Readers Workshop and explained more in depth the schedule we will be following each day during readers workshop. A pie chart was which was used to explain that the Mini Lesson's purpose is to share ideas, strategies, or directions to follow while they're reading (my time), the Reading is their time to explore Look Books (their time) and the Closure is to discuss what we've learned or read about (our time).

Social Studies began with an introduction to holidays celebrated in honor of America: Veterans Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, etc. We also talked about some people from the past including George Washington, Daniel Boone, and Benjamin Franklin.

We went to Computer Lab after lunch and learned another couple games on the Jumpstart Kindegarten program. The students did an excellent job working independently on their computers and are showing improvement in their manipulation of the mouse.

We also read Curious George today, which the kids really enjoyed.