Thank you for coming to our Curriculum Night last night! We had a great groups of parents here and it was wonderful to chat with all of you. I hope I answered all of your questions regarding our curriculum here at ABS. If not, please do not hesitate to contact me. I would be happy to help. For those of you who did not attend, I placed all the hand-outs inside your child's Thursday folder. Please note that most materials are already linked online for your convenience. All sites are linked on our Team Harmony Web-site, and also within my classroom blog in the sidebar.
If you wish to retrieve additional supports and information about the programs we use here at ABS, please follow the link to our Family Resource Page, with links to Fundations and Bridges, to name just a couple. Click here to access directly. This site also gives you access to our educational games wiki.
If you are the parent of a 1st grader, or you wish to get support materials, printables, and games from 1st grade math, please visit our new math blog. We are very excited to share this with parents and hope you will check it out periodically. Click here to access.
We wanted to share with you that our project on our "Hopes and Dreams" have been completed. The students did an amazing job showing their hopes for the year. We created puppets, wrote words and glued on our digital photographs. They are hanging in our classroom but ehre is a picture for you to see.
In Writer's Workshop, we discussed how we can come up with new ideas for stories we write. The students learned about the difference between "Heatr" and "Head" stories as a way to generate lists of ideas. "Heart" stories are stories about things we love, such as a pet, our families and special events in our own lives. "Head" stories are stories about things we know, such as soccer, if you are a soccer player, or farming, if you live on a farm. We look forward to sharing many new stories with you.
Lastly, I wanted to clarify our classroom sharing schedule. Sharing is something we do inside our own classroom. We encourage the students to share something about their learning that day or week. Perhaps the student wants to do a special read aloud about a book that was read during the week, or perhaps the student wishes to share a special writing piece. The objective is to build a community of learners and to get to know each other better. Please do not worry about the sharing schedule at home as we keep track of it in our classroom. I tell the children, in case they forget, so we can figure something out together. I do not want this to be stressful, rather, it is a simple conversation in our classroom. In other words, it is more like a regularly scheduled opportunity to talk and answer questions. It is incredible to see their confidence grow throughout the year. Please let me know if you still have any questions. Thank you for your support.
Have a great rest of the week and weekend,
Maria
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