As a friend of mine put it on Facebook on Sunday night, “I’m actually glad to go back to school tomorrow and get back into a normal routine. I miss my kids!” I’m sure like me, for you last week’s events at the Boston Marathon were unnerving, stressful and caused some sleepless nights.
Getting back to school on Monday was tough (the alarm clock wake up aside) since we were coming with heavy hearts. Though there was a bit of chatter among our young friends about the “bombs,” most happily skipped in wanting to share about their travels and greet friends. I redirected conversation and we were right back into our happy kindergarten bubble.
This week we finished up things and started some new ones. We worked on writing pieces based on Hans Christian Anderson’s The Ugly Duckling. (The children did absolutely beautiful artwork – I’ll post when complete!) We also began a review of lowercase letter formation. I am hoping with this “review” we will start to see more use of lowercase in our writing. We also did simple fine motor exercises to increase our strength in our fingers. Fine motor control is a great skill to work on at home through fun things like play dough, beading, building with little legos, cutting with scissors, etc.)
In Math we finished up Unit 6, which meant a project! We took a couple of days to learn about maps and make maps of our classroom. The at home project is due tomorrow and we are looking forward to sharing each child’s map tomorrow.
We also did more community building this week as we have less than 40 days left together! (Where did the year go??) We did a couple of new Morning Meeting greetings to freshen up the start of the day. We also learned a new tag game called Partner Tag out at recess. And of course, there’s lots of singing new songs and old songs together…
We will see our 6th grade buddies tomorrow and finish up April by doing an outside poetry project. Sounds like a good Friday afternoon to me!
