Room Updates

Our room is always changing with new resources and exciting elements! 

Here are a few things we've added since the begging of the year. 

This is our "I can..." board! We change this board weekly to correspond with our our objectives. We put the objectives in student friendly terms so that they can make the connection between our learning goals and the lessons we do. Each morning during our hook ups, we review our 'I can' statements for the week. The students say "I CAN" and then the teacher reads the statement. This is a great resource to use when stating objectives during and after lessons!

These are just a few pictures of our room! We are in an open classroom environment so there aren't many walls but we do have plenty of floor space!




We also have a brand new rug thanks to donorschoose.org!

It is great because each student can sit in their own square and have enough room to themselves. We are working on incorporating games with the colors to make our lessons more interactive! I have also seen some teachers assign color spots to each student. Which ever color you are on is your team for that 9 weeks! Assigning spots helps with quick transitions and cooperative learning groups.

Predictable Chart

Each week, we complete a predicable chart to hang in our room! The sentence pertains to our unit study or out letter of the week. The sentences are short and, of course, predictable!

Right now, we are spending a lot of time on letter knowledge so we are exploring 1 letter each week. For these charts, the sentence always reads..

"(letter of the week) is for ________________ "

ex: "Bb is for brain. (Ms. White)

This predictable chart is from when we had our family unit study. Each student counted the number of people in their home and we wrote the number into their sentence. 

Ex: "I have three. (Ms. White)"

There are a few things we do to make the predictable chart a knowledge packed lesson:

• Allow students to choose which color they would like have their sentence written in
• during our color study, we have the children spell the color they want to use!
• Ask higher order questions to increase sentence structure awareness 
• "Why is the 1st letter capitalized?"
• "What sound will your word start with?"
• "Is there a place in the classroom that can help you spell your word?"
• "What do we need at the end of every sentence?"
• Show students how to stretch out the sounds in their word and help them spell it correctly
• Add a period after the sentence is written
• Add the student's name in parentheses at the end of their sentence to show ownership 
• we have them read their name after reading their sentence ex: "by Ms. White" 
• When their sentence is completely written, we ask students if they would like to read it by themselves or if they would like some help from the Nemos
• if students ask for help, read the sentence together and then let them read it by themselves
• once they read if by themselves, we give each student a 'picture cheer'!