What a Week!

What a great first week! The kids are settling in nicely. They are a great group of workers and seem very eager to learn. This week  Mrs. Costello and I have been conducting learning style surveys and Math surveys in an attempt to get to know our little learners. All week we have been reviewing outcomes from last year. We have also been doing some pretesting on the kiddos so as we may differentiate their learning this month and all year.

Something I am very proud about is our class mission statement. The kids made it with very little help from their teachers. First our kiddos were put into groups of four. In their group they had to discuss the following question-Why do you think you are in school?

The kids had a lot of interesting conversations. Some kids think we are in school to have fun, to be better readers, to make new friends, and to learn all about Math. I then had the kids draw or write some of the reasons why they think we are in school on their group brainstorm sheet.

We then came together as a class and picked the top 3 reasons why we are in school. Our top three reasons why we are in school are...
1. To be smarter
2. To make friends
3. To be better readers


The kiddos then had to decide how we would do those things...we had to make a plan. What do we need to do to accomplish these three things?

Here is the final result of our hard work. Normally I would post more pictures of the kids working but I am still waiting to get all my student info sheets back-I need photo permission first!