We could tell that everyone rested over the weekend because the students all came in this morning eager and ready to learn! We started language jobs this morning. This is an opportunity for students to work in small group on language based activities. We are focusing on the letters and sounds if the alphabet during this language job rotation. After the students completed their jobs they had free choice activity time. This is a wonderful time for students to begin to develop new friendships.
We introduced the idea of Bucket Filling to the students (there is a link to the Bucket Filling website under links for parents). We talked about ways we can fill someone’s bucket (help, share, be kind) rather then dip someone’s bucket (be mean, take something, unkind works).
We finished our day with math jobs. Students had the opportunity to work and explore different math manipulatives.

We trust that everyone had a wonderful March Break! It was so much fun to hear of all the exciting adventures. We started Monday morning by writing about these adventures. Everyone had such great stories to share.

We have started to talk about situations in our lives that make us feel and unsafe. Yesterday with our buddies we drew pictures and wrote about times we felt safe and unsafe. We will continue to focus over the next few weeks ways we can be safe (at home, at the park, swimming, etc).

We have started a new unit in math on 3D shapes. We are using lots of great math words – sphere, cylinder, cone, cube, pyramid, prism, face, edge and vertices. The students are spending times during their math jobs exploring, building and examining these shapes that are ‘fat not flat’.

If you have any ‘recycled’ 3D shapes that you would like to donate to the class (paper towel cylinders, empty boxes, cans,etc) we would love to have have them to create using 3D shapes at our science table.