First Week Fun!

Getting ready to go find Pete the Cat!

We made it through our first week!  Our focus was learning routines and finding our way around the new building.  We enjoyed reading several Pete the Cat books and had fun looking for Pete the Cat, as he left clues for us all throughout OMS (even upstairs by the big kid 5th graders!).  Here are some of the other things we did this week:

-wrote about our night before 1st grade
-drew self-portraits of our first day of 1st grade
-took lots of pictures
-learned how to "survey"
-learned about weekly helpers and began doing our jobs
-learned our weekly schedule and made a schoolbus craft to remind us of each day
-had a special lunch orientation!
-began "Explorations" in math and learned how exploring is different than playing
-learned about building stamina during "read to self" - lots of practice yet with this!
-learned about OWL rules and made an OWL Rules booklet
-lots of Pete the Cat stuff!
-lots of Character Counts stuff! (The kids are watching a cool Character Counts movie now!)
-took two math pretests and practiced number writing
-made a cool guitar craft for Pete the Cat
-made a Name Bingo board and played Name Bingo
-had Gym, Music, Art and LMC
-learned all our safety drills
-took lots more pictures!

Next week we begin our "Schoolwide" Literacy program and our "Everyday Math" program.  I hope you will be able to join me next Thursday night, Sept. 8 from 6:30-7:00 in our classroom (parents only!) for lots of information about our year together.  Until then, enjoy some first week pictures!....

Looking for Pete the Cat:

Recess fun on the new playground: