Mrs. Crook's Classroom: Short Days, but a Long Week

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Happy Friday to Everyone! What a week it has been.... between minimum days and conferences.
First of all, I would like to thank each and every one of the parents of the classroom for coming to meet with me for Parent Teacher Conferences. It was such a pleasure meeting all of you on a more personal level. You should be very proud of your students and also give yourselves a pat on the back for being such supportive parents!

This week, we worked on the letters P, Q, R, S, and T. Our big focus right now is writing the correct letters in formation and connecting each letter with the sound that it makes in order to connect with other letters and make words.
We have been watching this video, alongside with our newly adopted Journeys Curriculum, to work on saying the sounds of each letter. This is one that definitely gets the class moving along!

In math we have been working on writing and counting the numbers from 1 to 5. This game on ABCya.com is a great way to practice counting numbers and identifying the written number to match. Round 1 of this game focuses on counting from 1 to 5.

Fish Counting Game

Because of the minimum days, we have only had a chance to work on Language Arts and Math this week. However, we did have our first character trait assembly for the year. We learned about "Being Respectful' and how we respect ourselves and others while at school. There were some pretty exciting performances by some of the teachers.

We did have library today, so if your child brought their book back today they were able to check out a new one from Mrs. Meyer in the library.

We have also been reviewing our school-wide PBIS rules:

I am Safe

I am Respectful

I am Responsible

I am a Learner

We have been working on these rules on different areas of the school, including the playground, the cafeteria, the bus/pick-up line, the hallway, and the bathrooms. We expect each of our students to follow each of the rules in all of the places on our school campus. Please help your student remember our school rules!

These are a little late in posting, but here are the students' First Day of School Pictures taken by Ms. Brown.