What a great first week we had! Tiger Team has lots of familiar faces and even some new ones. It has been so much fun seeing old friends and even making new ones.
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Old friends and new friends |
While we read this story, we talked about the main character, Sarah, and how she was feeling on her first day of school. We talked about some of the things she saw, some of the things she felt, and what some of her goals for the school year might be, especially since it was Sarah's first day at a new school. Then, we did our first very special writing about what we felt, what we saw, what our goals were for our new school year. Mrs. Maggart is going to keep these until the end of our year for a special project. But shhh! It's a secret.
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| working on our first writing project |
This week, we talked a lot of expectations and rules. We practiced a lot and modeled what kind of behavior is a "thumbs up" and what kind of behavior would be a "thumbs down." We talked about how our class is very special because we have a very special name...Tiger Team. We are a team. We synergize inside and outside of our classroom to always be leaders. Being a leader is hard work, but when we follow these 7 habits, we shine bright and set a great example for all! We all made a promise to be a leader of our Tiger Team and signed our names proudly for all to see.
Tiger Team are always leaders, inside and outside of our classroom. If a school leader at our school gives us a compliment for our leadership, we can earn a baseball point. Ask me all about the special things we can earn when we synergize! Mrs. Pound, a fifth grade teacher, gave us a compliment for how respectfully and quietly we were lined up in the hallway and even asked her fifth graders to line up just like us! Wow!
There are so many leaders at our school. We listed all of the grown-up leaders here at TvE and talked about why they were leaders and what they do. We worked in our table groups to brainstorm and list all of the things are school leaders do for us.
Then, we made posters for each of our leaders. We hung this special mobile from our ceiling so we always know where to look if we are in need of a leader.
It is important for us to have the rules that they set so that we can feel safe, so we can learn, and so we are always kind and respectful to one another. Mrs. Maggart read us Hooway for Wodney Wat written by Helen Lester.
In this story, the other animals at school used mean words towards Wodney Wat and his heart was crumbled, especially the mean Camilla.
Then, we were introduced to Mr. Crumbles. We passed him around our sharing circle, saying one mean thing to him and each time we did, we would crumble a little piece of his body. Then, Mrs. Maggart said we had to apologize for our words and to smooth out the pieces that we crumbled as we said, "I'm sorry." But you know what? No matter how much we tried, we could not make Mr. Crumbles look the same. Our words are very powerful we learned so we each signed Mr. Crumbles and promised to always think of our words before we said them so we would not crumble people's hearts like we crumbled Mr. Crumbles.
Mrs. Maggart read us a silly story titled The Mixed-up Alphabet written by Steve Metzger.
Mrs. Maggart said she really wanted to put some words on our Word Wall but her kitten, Harley, had jumped on the pile and mixed them all up. When she showed us the words we saw that they were the names of all of the members of Tiger Team! We worked at our table groups to sort our names in ways they were alike and this is what we came up with:
Finally, Mrs. Maggart was finally able to hang them on the Word Wall where we can always see them and use them to help us write our new friends' names.
In Math, we did lots and lots of graphing. We graphed how we get home. We graphed our eye color. We made a graph with our bodies of how many boys and how many girls were in our class. We made picture graphs and real object graphs. We learned the words most and least. I even know the math word for when something is the same...ask me what it is!
But even mathematicians practice their reading. We got to practice our's by looking through some great books for mathematicians! Math is so much fun!
Here are some more pictures of things we did this week:
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| working on our first week of school booklets |
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| responding to our reading |
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| working on our portraits for our leadership board in the hallway |
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| working on our coconut trees after reading Chicka Chicka Boom Boom |
We had such a busy, great week. Next week, we will start our normal routine and begin reading, writing, and doing even more math each and every day! I am excited to work with Mrs. Maggart in small groups and practice my reading every morning! We will even have two new friends joing Tiger Team on Monday! We cannot wait!
Love,
Tiger Team
