It's hard to believe it's the first full week of school as it feels like we've been back for a long time. The children quickly grasped new routines, finished a short read aloud, and are almost done with a number of introductory activities. Next week will find students completing early year assessments, completing introductory activities, starting the first math unit, reading the remaining books in the read aloud trilogy, attending reading, writing, and social studies rotations, reading, adding to their showcase portfolios, attending specials, and reading on their own.
I'll spend some time in the days ahead reviewing students' study efforts that will later be placed in students' portfolios. I'll also attend to some new assessment data as I begin to get a good picture of the class as a whole and think about how to best coordinate the curriculum efforts ahead.
