Getting Organized!

Hi families!

How are you?  We have so much work going that we are working on structures for you to find out what they are up to.  Today we created a work in progress board for friends to keep track of what they are doing and what they want to do.  This has helped them do this without me!

There are so many things I could write about, it's exciting.  I will keep this short so I can push "publish"!

We got our math challenge wall started last week.  Friends write up math questions for others to investigate and solve.  This week friends put up multiplication challenges and we talked about grouping.  For example 7x2 is 7 groups of 2 or 2 groups of 7.  The kids have been realizing this is pretty neat.  Here are some images:

We have also been talking about our classroom management.  We are forming many brainstorms of ideas that work for our class, or things that will help us while we work.  Here are a few:

There are so many things to agree on, to figure out and to do to create our dynamic community.  We are hard at work on all of this.  I hope you can make it to our Back to School night to see what your child is up to.

Also, have you met Sandra?  She will be our Helper Teacher, as the children call her, for times when I will be in other teachers class to mentor them.  I hope you get a chance to meet her in the coming weeks.

COME ON  THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 22 any time from 3:30-6pm!

Have a great night!  Love, Jennifer