Next my project was to get my room ready for school. I had been mulling a new plan over in my head for a while about centers. Since we worked so hard learning our letters and sounds the first semester, I decided it was now time to do some independent practice and reinforcement of the skills we have been and will continue to learn. Children need to practice many times to learn new skills. So, I printed up literacy numbers for each center, I printed up math numbers for each center, worked hard at rearranging my room to find enough spots to put out 11 literacy and 11 math centers, and then the task was finding the centers that would occupy the students for at least 20-25 minutes.
We went back to school on last Thursday, so I spent 2 days teaching the new centers and the expectations at each center. Some needed no teaching and some we did as a whole group so they would have some experience with the new center. We started on Monday. It is going great! I am loving it. Now I am really stressing how when they are working they need to stay on task and complete their activity. That will take a bit longer for them to understand. On Friday all the incomplete work will go home!
Let's see updates. The shower upstairs is still unfinished, sewing room is a bit further along, Christmas is all put up, broken garbage disposal has been replaced, and the wire that was first strung from outside through the window and into and across the dining room is now run in through the roof somehow and over to the other side of the dining room, there is still some issue with a wire in the pantry, but no more wire across the dining room floor! Ken is working nights taking down Christmas at the mall. Boy does that mess up his internal schedule and I sure do miss him.  |
| Luca ready for Snowman Dance |
We are healthy and enjoying the new year. Oh, I actually was at a friend's house on New Year's Day and I ate black eyed peas for the first time in my life. I hear that it will bring me good luck. Let's hope so!
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