Announcements
Snack Group
Be on the lookout for information about Kindergarten snack group! This group will be run by Mr. Leary and will provide Kindergarten students with the opportunity to get to know one another and build their communication skills! More information about this fantastic opportunity will be sent home early next week!
Parent/Teacher Conferences
It's hard to believe that Parent/Teacher Conferences are right around the corner! Please be sure to make your appointment using the conference scheduler which can be accessed through Boyden's homepage. I look forward to chatting about your child's progress soon!
Scholastic Order
September's Scholastic order went home last week! If you purchased a copy of What It Means to Be Kind and did not receive it please let me know. A copy was left behind in the classroom.
Promoting Positive Behavior in Room 202!
During these first few weeks of school, the children have been working hard to learn the rules and expectations in our classroom. In order to encourage the students to make positive choices, both individual and whole class behavior management systems will be used.
Have you heard about “High Fives”?
One individual incentive we will be using this year are “high fives”. When a child is observed displaying positive behavior such as helping a teacher or other student, being especially kind, or making a great choice they will be rewarded with a small hand shape (also known as a “high five”). Once a child receives 5 high fives they may trade them in for a prize from the class treasure tub.
Reward Jar
For a whole class incentive we will be using a Reward Jar! When our class does a fantastic job working together and making good choices as a group, they will be awarded by having an item such as a pom pom, cube, bead, etc. added to the jar. When our jar has been filled the class will then decide if they would like five extra minutes of free choice time or five extra minutes of outdoor recess.
We like to say in our classroom, “When you make good choices, good things happen!”. I can’t wait to see all of the good happenings in Room 202 this year!
Curriculum
Literacy
This week in Literacy we read the story Julius by Angela Johnson. This fantasy tale about a girl and her pet pig helped us discuss the question "How do people and animals work together?". Also this week we introduced the new sight words "to" and "a", and learned about the letter M!
Math
We continued our exploration of shapes this week! After reading the story The Shapes of Things by Dayle Ann Dodds we had a great time making our own shape pictures!
Mrs. Love Visits!
Last week Mrs. Love (Boyden School's Occupational Therapist) visited our classroom for the first time! Mrs. Love taught us about the importance of good body posture when writing, and also explained how our "helping hand" (or non-dominant hand) has the very important job of holding down our paper when we write and guiding our paper when we cut. We are very fortunate that Mrs. Love will be visiting our classroom once a month this year!
Our centers this week had the children identifying words that begin with M, decorating mittens, and looking for the letters in magazines!
Math
We continued our exploration of shapes this week! After reading the story The Shapes of Things by Dayle Ann Dodds we had a great time making our own shape pictures!
Mrs. Love Visits!
Last week Mrs. Love (Boyden School's Occupational Therapist) visited our classroom for the first time! Mrs. Love taught us about the importance of good body posture when writing, and also explained how our "helping hand" (or non-dominant hand) has the very important job of holding down our paper when we write and guiding our paper when we cut. We are very fortunate that Mrs. Love will be visiting our classroom once a month this year!
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