Making Connections

 Now that we are together as one class, the Blue and Gray Packs are learning all about the personalities that match the names they've been seeing and hearing about from the adults. It's wonderful to watch the children put the social skills they have practiced to use as they greet new friends at Morning Meeting and find multiple ways that they are both the same and different from one another.  

As part of our school wide project- Reading to Raise Anti-Racists, we listened and watched Common, the rapper, do a a fabulous read of Let's Talk About Race by Julius Lester

Common Reads Let's Talk about Race

 The book was a perfect lead into a new approach to our October self portraits.  You can have a look at us mixing paint to match our own unique skin tones.

A new Math game called "Blastoff" was a great way to work with a partner on the shared goal of filling hexagons with many different combinations of triangles, trapezoids and rhombuses.

Even some of our well established routines like Number Corner are more fun with more kids!  Have a look at us working on writing the missing number.  Can you tell it was 11?

And of course some activities are still solo, like Monday's Literacy Lesson about being Brave Spellers.  Brave Spellers know that even if they don't know the exact dictionary spelling of a word they can still show and tell what they want to say with pictures and "best guess" spelling.