Work Hard, Play Hard

 

Our week began with a day of distance learning.  The children attended their scheduled google meets and completed work that was assigned to them.  We listened to Everyone Loves You, Mr.Hatch and had a great conversation about the book.

When we returned on Tuesday morning, we started working on The Friendly Letter in preparation for our Pen Pal Project.  The children are so excited about getting the letters from other schools in different states.  Hopefully, this project will develop some great friendships along the way.

We are also working on Drama and the children are creating their own little skits.  Once we return from our winter break, they will be performing them in front of their class.

Mrs. Santilli is teaching the children about what to include in the letter and how to address the envelope.

                          Station Rotation

This past week, the children took part in station rotation in our ELA class. The children had the opportunity to go to 3 stations and work together on the assignments in each center.  We have a teacher led center, a writing center and a technology center.  It was great to see them help each other and interact with one another to get the tasks completed.

                                       Global Play Day

On Friday, we celebrated Global Play Day.  This was an opportunity for all the children to unplug from electronic devices and just play board games, with each other.  It was fun to see them laughing and playing and just being kids.  They chose what games they wanted to play and just played uninterrupted and freely.

Look at all those happy faces!!!  It warms my heart.

Children took time in each class to have fun and interact as laughter filled the room.

The day went smoothly.  Each student got along, played with one another and just were able to be kids, something that we need to let them do after the couple of years we have had.  

On Friday we also held the virtual student of the month assembly.  The children are so excited to see who makes it for the week.

Hoping everyone has a wonderful Winter Break.  We all will refresh, refocus and relax in order to come back to school and able to start up where we left off.