This week the students helped us come up with our Essential Agreements for the year. The students and I went through the process of narrowing down a long list of rules into 5 that we collectively thought were the most important. We promised to abide by these essential agreements daily and signed our name pledging to do our best each day. The students also wrote down their hopes and dreams for first grade and we made them into a class book. Be sure to ask your child about his/her hope or dream for First Grade. Below is a picture showing the Essential Agreements that we made together.
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The students and I had a great week getting to know each other while establishing the rules and procedures for our classroom, transition times, hallways, cafeterias, and playground. This year I have started something new with giving the students stability balls to use as chairs. From day one we learned the rules for their use and constantly reviewed them throughout the week. The students have done a great job and I have noticed that the students are staying on their stability balls during work time and the amount of movement in the room (besides the bouncing :) ) has lessened considerably than in the past. We also created our classroom essential agreements and wrote a class book about our Hopes and Dreams of First Grade. We will read and review the essential agreements each day and reflect back on our Hopes and Dreams throughout our year together. Pictures of our first few days together are below.
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AuthorMy name is Erin Webb and I am going into my fourteenth year teaching. I taught kindergarten in Summerville, SC for one year before moving to Rock Hill after getting married. Since being in Rock Hill, I have been teaching first grade at Rosewood Elementary International School. This will be my sixth year teaching using the Dual Language Model. I will be team teaching with Monsieur Joseph McFadden. I am very excited about what the coming year has to offer! Archives
January 2016
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