Things are " Falling" Into Place

 Fall is in the air, crisp breeze, sunny days and the colorful leaves all around us.  The children are continuing to put in their best effort.  This week was no different.  The students worked in stations, wrote on National Day of Writing and we ended the week with a visit from Gobi and Dion.  Another week full of learning and fun all around.  

Our mornings always begin with coming in and settling ourselves either with morning bins or some other activity.  They also answer questions from the morning meeting slides so they can join us on the rug and have wonderful conversations around those questions.

As they prepare for the morning meeting, I take attendance and lunch count.  It is a nice way to settle into the day and the children know that it is expected of them each morning.  

One morning during this week, one of our videos was about building up their confidence level.  They all wrote about something they wanted to be more confident in.  We will be sharing these in the next few days.

Station Rotations:

The children look forward to taking part in their stations.  Each station is dedicated to either a skill we have been working on in Grammar, they go onto Lexia and IXL, they read with me, and also I try to throw in some type of writing activity.  The children seem to enjoy doing this especially now that they have learned the routines and how they go from one to another.

Listening to the conversations and watching them help one another is exciting. 

On Thursday of this week we celebrated National Day on Writing.  The children wrote on our "grafitti wall" that was displayed outside of the office.  Each class took a turn to go out there and write #WhyIWrite.  It was wonderful to see them all out there and write the reasons why they write.  Our Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent also took part in this.

Once the wall was complete, the children enjoyed reading what others wrote.  It turned out excelllent and a great way to get the school community involved.

Higlights of the week:

I can't let the blog end without giving Mrs. Eastman kudos.  She put together the author visit.  On Friday the children were treated to having Dion and Gobi visit the school and share the adventures they have had.  Excitement was felt througout the entire school.  The children loved hearing how Gobi and Dion met, the adventures they went through and what they are currently doing.  

Mrs. Eastman also held the character pumpkin walk.  Any child, who wanted to take part in it, brought a pumpkin designed as their favorite character from a book.  It was amazing to see all the creations.  Here are a few samples of what the children came up with.

We had a terrific week and there is so much more to come.  For Vetereans Day we always make cards for our veterans.  This year we are also asking for donations of socks for them.  If you can spare a pair, please send them in.  

Each grade level has a 

box for the donations.  We will be collecting socks until October 28th.

Self Reflection:

Our days are filled with laughter, learning and an overall time of making discoveries as we learn.  It is so important that we make sure that we are all doing well.  We reflect daily on how we think we did, how we can improve and what we need to do in order to be successful.  Our Star Conferences will be held this Friday.  As a school we all meet one on one with our students and discuss their progress and how they can do better.  I enjoy this time with the students because it gives me more individual time with them and I get to know them better.  Building relationships with each student is so important.  If you do not know the children, how will you be able to teach them?  This is why our Star Time is part of our monthly routine. We want each child to succeed and we want to provide them with the right tools to do that.