First Week

Our first three days of school we spend a lot of time getting to know each other and talking about classroom and school expectations and procedures.

We did learn quite a lot from the Channel 14 news team.  They taught us how to S.O.A.R at Creek.  SOAR stands for Safe, Optimistic, Accountable and Respectful.

Enjoy just a little taste of the news team here.

We also started talking about our reading lives.  We brainstormed reasons for good reading lives and "stinky" reading lives.  And, we decided that interest plays a huge role.  We need to be reading books that we are interested in, that we understand and that we WANT to keep reading.  Otherwise, reading is going to fall by the wayside!

We had a chance to get to know my personal classroom library and also to visit the IMC.  Most students left with a book on Friday and lots were able to get a few pages read.

We also learned about "stealing minutes".  Ask your child what this means!

It was a GREAT first week!