It's 7:50 and the children start to filter into the room. After putting things in their cubbies and making a lunch choice, each child stops by the Morning Message to have a go at the day's job. Either myself or Ms.Finn is stationed nearby to read and talk it through before sending children to their table spot to complete their answer which they then bring back to tape up.
As you may know from the newsletter, we completed our first Math Menu cycle this past week! Here is a look at the chart we used to help the class understand how to check off activities as they complete them.
In addition to Math Menu which happens on several afternoons throughout the week, one typical mid-morning routine is doing a hands-on activity that reinforces a concept from a Literacy Mini-Lesson. Here you can see us using cereal alphabet letters to spell names and snap words. This followed a lesson about letters coming together to make words. You can also see us labeling the colors we mixed which followed a reading of Mouse Paint. We've added the color words to our word wall!
A less frequent routine for us is the bi-weekly All School Morning Meetings over Zoom. This is an adaptation of what we used to do IN-PERSON in the gym every Friday morning. Below you a can see our class paying closed attention to a student sharing about this month's Reading to Raise Anti-Racists' selection: Your Name is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins Bigelow
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