Reporters' Updates:
4/2 "Today was a great time! We made turtles."
4/3 "We played with our friends!"
4/4 "We tested!"
4/5 "We decorated an egg for an oviparous animal."
This week, we will be learning about butterflies!
SPRING MUSICAL
Bunnies~Descriptive Writing Prompt
A New Behavior Plan:
(This is a copy from the email that was sent to parents on 4/2.)
Over the break, I researched a way to tweak the behavior system for our class. Every year brings new challenges because every year brings a new group of students together. As our year has progressed, I've seen a few flaws in the rainbow chart, for this class. Thus, a new idea was born!
The name cards have been removed. The binder behavior calendar is gone. The rainbow chart has been placed in another part of the room, to remind us to "slow down" and "be ready to learn". We will be writing a daily class goal on the white board. (Yesterday, we wrote "I can control myself.") On Mondays, I will be chatting with each child, to establish personal goals for the week. These goals will be social and academic in nature. On Fridays, each child will review their goal sheet with me and assess progress. These sheets will be sent home on Mondays, with the work from the previous week.
A kindergarten colleague in Canada stretched my thinking in the area of classroom behavior systems. Her thoughts can be found HERE. I urge you to read her post and put yourself in the place of the student.
I have greatly enjoyed teaching and learning with your children! Each day, we review how to give "heartprints" and to "THINK" before we speak. I believe that practicing the discipline of self-evaluation will benefit the children, and also be a blessing for your family. By evaluating the progress in my classroom management system, I was led to rethink the process! No matter how old we grow, learning never stops!
