Good Citizen of the Week

Congratulations to Makayla, our latest good citizen!  She did a great job this week helping others, being a friend, and working hard on her classwork.  We are proud of you!

 

 

Also, I must say congratulations to my entire class for earning the "Eagle Award" for first grade.  This award is given each week to the first grade class that has the best behavior.  Please keep it up!  Great behavior leads to great learning!.

Room 20 in action this week!

A special thanks to Mrs. Bishop, ELL instructional assistant, for sharing these pictures!

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, we are wearing pink on all Fridays in October.

Savannah and Emma are doing great with "Read with Someone."

Emmanuel works hard on writing about his favorite food.

Mrs. Joyce works with a small group of readers.  Saul and Makayla are becoming very fluent!

Crystal reads "pack, packs, packed, and packing." 

Word Work in Room 20

This year, we are implementing a new literacy framework called "The Daily Five."  One of its components is "Word Work."  Students will either practice their spelling words or sight words for the week.  Below are some great pictures of the students in action!  I am so proud of them!

Rainbow writing

Chalkboard writing

Paddle writing

Make words with letters

 

We will continue to add new activities as the children become more independent with their work.  

October 3, 2013-Read for the Record

from http://www.jstart.org/campaigns/read-record

Jumpstart's Read for the Record® - October 3, 2013

Jumpstart’s premiere national campaign, Read for the Record, presented in partnership with the Pearson Foundation, is one time of the year when millions of individuals come together to celebrate literacy and support Jumpstart in its efforts to promote early childhood education. On October 3, people across the country united to read the children’s book Otis by Loren Long in support of Jumpstart’s mission: to work toward the day every child in America enters kindergarten prepared to succeed.




Our class had the opportunity to enjoy listening to a DVD recording of Henry County Public Schools' superintendent, Dr. Jared Cotton, read the story Otis.  In addition, the children were quick to identify the characters, setting, 2 problems, and solutions of the story.  What a great idea!

Good citizens for the last 3 weeks!

Oh no!  Mrs. Joyce has gotten behind in updating her blog!  The children REALLY love seeing their pictures posted for being good citizens.  Below are our last 3 room 20 good citizens! 

I choose our good citizens based on their behavior for the previous week.  Usually, they have few, if any, "counts" or warnings.  They are nice and polite to others, follow the teacher's directions, and do their best work. 

Congratulations, Emmanuel!

Keep up the good work, Weston and Crystal!