We got a lot done during our first week of school! We practiced using our Tribe agreements. The class is especially good at attentive listening and mutual respect. The agreements are going to be made our official class rules on Monday. They are also part of our first project. The students are going to pick which agreement is their favorite. Then in groups they will come up with a way to teach their agreement to a first grade class. So far the class has thought about doing skits.
In reading we started the read to self component of Daily 5. We discussed what the students should be doing during read to self. We then started building stamina. It is important that we practice read to self correctly while building stamina so that when I am working with groups of students the rest of the class is on task working independently. Next week we are going to start work on writing and read with someone. Once the class can work independently on all components of Daily 5 I will start working with groups.
We did two writing assessments last week. The students wrote a narrative and an opinion piece. These will help me know what we need to work on during writing.
The class voted to have a panda as our "class buddy". We will name him this week and he will go home with a student next Thursday. I can't wait to see what adventures he has during the year!
We have a great class! The returning Oasis students have been very welcoming and helpful to those students new to the school. It's going to be a great year!
