We haven't officially started our reading program. Teachers still have trainings to attend. In the meantime, we are practicing building stamina for partner reading and reading to self. In addition, we have been completing all of our reading assessments. We have completed DIBELS. Most students have completed the assessment for Lexia which is an online resource that will allow students to work at their reading level. Also, it provides lexile scores. I will be using a combination of all assessments, behavior observations, and ability to work with peers to determine reading groups. We worked with our 4th grade buddy class last Friday. 4th graders assessed students on money. Then they practiced coin identification and counting money. It was a fun time for both 1st graders and 4th grade students. This isn't a great quality photo but I just can't express enough how amazing and enriched our read aloud time is with focusing on a single topic. There are text to text connections, text to self connections and text to world connections happening daily. Students are completely engaged with topics. One of our favorite quotes from a book was "Sun you are so even, so fair, as you share your light so equally on everyone". We loved it so much we needed to post it. Every time we finish a book students are so excited to print up the picture of the person we are reading about. We've also read some pretty great fiction stories where women are the protagonist. Our next social justice unit will be on Native Americans.
How is homework going? I am hoping it is the perfect mix of creating some responsibility but flexible enough that it works seamlessly with your family. Please let me know if I can be of a support for homework completion.
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