Whew!

Whew!
I got behind on my blogging there for a bit and I apologize. I will stay on top of it and blog every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
What have we been up to?
Well, Direct Instruction has been successfully launched into the learning atmosphere. The students are split into groups and are engaged in a fast paced lesson in Language Arts and Math in the mornings. We have also been continuing our work with "Giraffe Talk" or Compassionate Communication and our Eight to Great curriculum.

We are starting two new projects. A recycling project, and a classroom book. The recycling project is essentially a competition between tables to see who can collect the most recyclale materials (mainly plastic bottles and aluminum cans). We will graph and see which table raises the most money and they then get to choose how to spend the money. Jeremy's class is raising money to buy a play structure for the outside area so I'm hoping they'll donate to that. They can also opt to buy some fish for the classroom, pizza for a pizza party, toys, books, music or pretty much anything they decide on.

Our other project is a classroom book that will be presented in the library once complete. Each student contributes a page. In the page, there are four quadrants: baby pictures, family pictures, likes and hobbies, and dreams for the future and now. So, I am asking for baby and family pictures that are copied off (I don't want to use actual copies unless you have doubles). Also, if you have pictures of them in their hobbies that would be great to send as well.

I am looking for a room parent. Drisana (Jazmine's mom) has volunteered. If there is anyone that would like to work with here, please come forward.

We are working on being friends and friendly in our class. Please talk to your little one about teasing, maybe share a story from your childhood and how hurtful teasing can be even into adulthood.

Thanks so much for all of your support.

In Peace, Harmony, and Play,
Meital