Week One Focus

Parents,

Our week one focus areas will be as follows:

• Quick Class meeting using discussion cards
• Build relationships and make connections
• Make a buddy
• Establishing our class routines and systems
• Set up our expectations
• Set long-term goals for self and class
• Set up interactive notebooks
• Set up flexible small groups
• Practice drills: evacuation, fire drills
• Team Building: tangram team work
• Intro Tool Box for math class
• Discuss cafeteria and Hallway Ready Procedures
• Covid safety practices
• Organize and label all folders and notebooks
• Teach turn and talk
• Building number sense: number talk daily 
• Introduce behavior economy
• Practice and review dismissal expectations
• Tour math supplies like dice, cards, base ten blocks, cubes, flash cards, etc.
• Give first timed fact drills 
• Make a list of special snacks
• Introduce technology and access instructions
• Students make a list everything they learned in 2nd grade
• In Science class, learn about lab safety and lab tools
• Introduce Genius hour Project Class
• Reflection: highs and lows of the week

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best, 

Mrs. Waters