Leaders, Rules, Family, and Friends          The picture below shows a graphic organizer telling about leaders and rules at home and school.               We learn about different rules during this unit.  One of the safety rules we focus on is what one should do at a stop light.  Be sure to listen to our Traffic Light Poem !                 We make graphic organizers to show our family, pets, home, and favorite family activity.                                                                                                              Daily Writing          The pictures below show students writing in journals.  We do this at least 3 times a week.                       Each month we work on writing a "Perfect Paper" about a certain topic.  For the month of August, our topic is Our School.  The students below are working on their first "Perfect Paper."       Each week, we feed Mrs. Sound Muncher something that begins with the letter of the week.  The student below is feeding her an owl for the letter Oo.                                                                                                            One of our class rules is to raise your hand for a turn!  These Busy Bees are following the rules!                                                                       Morning Message!  This student is finding a letter Oo in our Morning Message.  We use our daily Morning Message to help with our reading skills.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Math - AB patterns                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Saxon Math!                                                              Reading Group:  These students are using their reading fingers to find letters.                                                                                     These students are playing a sight word game!                                                                                                                                                                       These students are practicing letters on wipe-off boards.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      These students are playing a letter hide and seek game!                                                                          These students are creating letters out of pipe cleaners!                                                          These students are cutting out objects that begin with the letter Oo to glue on a capital O.                                                                         Center Time!!!                                                            Art Center - The students make a stop sign.                                                                                                                                                                          Writing Center - This student is drawing a picture of a school bus and using the weekly sight words to create a sentence.                                                                                                                                                                                       Math Center - The students make a school bus out of shapes.                                                       Phonics Center - This student is using play-doh to cover her sight words.