And so, another 100th day of school has come and gone. This morning my students and I were greeted by this wonderful banner made by my incredible student teacher:
Today we were blessed with a delayed opening. Unfortunately, we had a full days worth of activities and lessons planned. What to do?
We were able to start implementing Math Daily 5 today, a little rocky at first, but I am sure we will get the hang of it. We also started, thanks again to my student teacher, a daily reflection. The thought is that the students will write on a 3x3 stickie note, at the end of the day, something that "stuck" with them. We have the students set weekly goals but their ability to reflect at the end of the week was not really improving. Brittany thought that if we get them in the habit of reflecting quickly at the end of each day, Friday reflections will become less challenging.
Today's thoughts were much better than yesterdays, perhaps we are making progress!
Remember our snowflake bulletin board? Well, that is filled with snowflakes and statements about what is unique about the students.
While we are discussing culture and recognizing our similarities and differences, we thought it would be a good idea to encourage "acts of kindness". There were a couple of boards on Pinterest promoting this, I did not happen to see any of them, but we came up with this...
We began by reading Each Kindness, written by Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by EB Lewis. We are asking the students to find ways to share acts of kindness. We are recoding those acts of kindness on small hearts that the students decorate and we started adding them to the board late today. The students seem very excited and are delighted when they see their heart posted on the board. When I have a moment I will share what the board is looking like!
Well, that's not all that's going on in second grade today, but I think it is a good place to stop for this evening. Tonight I wish you all the energy and enthusiasm of a second grader, it is contagious!
