Another week has passed and we are starting to get a routine down. I always forget how many things there are to teach at the beginning of the year on just the routines. I wanted to share a few things that we worked on this week:
1. TEAM Homework-We started homework this week and the kids were so excited. I use the Team Homework approach that was found on TPT by Teacher's Clubhouse. I love it! The kids can play math games with a deck of cards, read, practice sight words and spelling words from a sight word/spelling menu and/or do writing from a writing menu. When they do one of these they put a star by what they did. At the end of the week, we add up how many stars the class gets. The kids were so excited to tell me on Friday how many stars they had gotten. We ended up having a total of 61 stars....YAY!! That was a lot considering I have a low number of students in class this year. We will try to beat that number next week. Here is what their homework folders look like:
2. I introduced the kids to scoot with tally mark scoot. They loved it and the fact that they are up out of their seats and moving is even better. I placed the cards around the room and they went around the room and wrote down the answers.
3. We are still working on how to be a good partner and using our spy voices (whisper voice). We practiced with a math game.
4. Vowel Town-We use Pathways to reading, so I have the vowel town on the mimio and the kids had to race to put the vowels back where they belonged. They had fun doing this and it was a great way to practice our vowel town.
5. Extra Fun Thing-the kids that have all their work done and haven't moved their clip down too many times get to participate in an extra fun thing at the end of the day on Friday. This week, we made slime! They thought this was so fun!
Have a great weekend!
Love that approach to homework! Hope your class beats that score next week!
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