First Week
/It’s been a fantastic first week! We spent our days learning new routines, building our community, and exploring many fun activities together. We worked together to discuss what’s important to us and created our community values—a special guide for how we want to treat each other and our classroom (see below). We also spent time playing with playdough, exploring outside, doing bubbles, and learning to use watercolors—all while getting to know each other and reviewing classroom rules and procedures. In math we began our math books and learned a fun game called Snap It to practice our math fact fluency. Juliette shared a story about losing her first tooth, which was the perfect launch into writers’ workshop. Ask your child to tell you about the story they are writing. We also began our word work studies to refine our penmanship and practice reading and spelling challenging words. We learned a yoga routine to help our calm our bodies, and we practiced being still and focused during our guided meditation time. Finally, we had a joyful celebration for Leighton’s birthday. It has been a wonderful week of learning, creativity, and community-building. We can’t wait to see what next week brings!
Otter Community Values
In our class, everyone is welcome, included, and heard. We are kind, curious, and joyful. We take care of each other and our materials. We make mistakes and learn from those mistakes. We use tools to solve problems peacefully, and we never hurt or hit.
We are
mathematicians,
writers,
readers,
scientists,
artists,
explorers,
engineers &
music makers
Together we learn and play outside every day.
