We have some very excited students. We started cursive handwriting this week! For students who struggle with neat printing, cursive writing may be their answer because it is one fluid motion. We use the cursive book pictured. It does not go in alphabetical order, but goes from easiest letters to form to the more difficult ones. We use the Handwriting Without Tears program, which is the same one your child used for printing. The cursive they are learning is different from the cursive I learned and probably that you learned. It is not slanted, doesn't have as many loops, and doesn't have extended beginning and ending strokes. So far we have learned the a and the c. We will work our way through the book and then eventually take our spelling tests, complete papers and write stories in cursive. At conferences at the end of October, your child will be showing you a sample of his/her cursive of the letters the students have learned so far. |
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On Friday, students made a goal for this year by completing the prompt "This year I hope to. . . " Students had such a variety of goals they made from reading more books to running faster miles in P.E. It is going to be a great year! We then put our goals under the front flap or our superhero costume. Students had to decide on their super power and make the rest o their superhero. These will be hanging in the hallway for a bit before coming home.
To get to know one another better, students were broken into groups and sat around Venn Diagrams made with hula hoops. After I put a statement on the board, students sorted their names into the right hoop. For example, one statement was "I have brothers. I have sisters, or I have both brothers and sisters." I learned a lot about the students, too!
What a wonderful group of students! Students came into our classroom with smiles and some nervousness. They started by coloring a superhero mask. We had an assembly to review the school expectations. Then we talked about our third grade survival bag. To have a successful year we have to be flexible (rubber bracelets), laugh (laughy taffy), believe we are smart (smarties), make mistakes (eraser), stick together (stickers), play (play-doh), write (pencil), read (book), and leave our mark in a good way (bookmark).
We had some time to play with our play-doh before going over some procedures and enjoying some superhero cupcakes. Yum! What a wonderful and smooth first day. Thank you so much for all the supplies you sent in. Our classroom is stocked for the year! |
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