I’m that person that will
tell you the same story a thousand times in your lifetime. What usually happens is I’ll tell you the same story more than once in the same day. I shared this
bit of information with my class and they thought it was hilarious; especially
since I read them a Snow White adaptation called, Seriously, Snow White was
so Forgetful! I swear, the books in this series are hilarious.
What I didn’t forget were
all the parent/teacher interviews I had on Thursday and Friday. I have 18 kids
and I saw 17 families for one on one interviews. The 18th family
spoke to me on the phone. It’s nice to know that the families of my onesies are
so involved in their children’s learning and social growth. Every single one of
my families are so sweet and nice, and I don’t think there was one interview
where we weren’t laughing about something. As a teacher, it’s great knowing
that you have support from your students’ families. It makes various situations
that much easier.
In our world of Candy
Land, I introduced them to the rides. I think we had enough imaginary pizza, cotton
candy, and pop for a while. The point of the rides was that for each ride they
went on, they had to use five tickets. The questions I gave them reinforced the
counting by fives skill. For those who really grasped counting by fives, I
would give them high numbers in their problems, such as:
[Student] went on 8 rides.
How many tickets did he use?
And those kids would run
up to me and say, “I was soooooo dizzy after going on that many rides!” It was
too adorable how excited they got.
I also returned to the 2D
shapes piece in math and told them that our Candy Land was doing so well with
all that money we earned from the restaurant, that I have decided to open up
another Candy Land in a new location. Thus, (yeah, I said thus) we need to
become architects and design the new restaurant for the new Candy Land. When I
explained to them what an architect is (that an architect designed our school)
they. were. pumped.
They had to use and
identify the 2D shapes in their restaurant layout. It was an easy way for me to
determine who knew their 2D shapes.
We ended the week off with
some Eric Carle artwork. I read them A House for Hermit Crab and we made
our own hermit crab art that I got from this website:
How great do these look?
It went well with our
shared reading we looked at this week.
We began learning all
about nouns and adjectives. I time travelled a little bit and found this song
on YouTube. It’s from a computer game I used to play when I was little called
Jumpstart Second Grade. The song was clearly catchy enough that I remembered it
after all this time.
Here are some other
pictures from our classroom this week.
Oh, the random things they
leave for me to find! As she says, “Have a good weekend!”
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