Week 1

These first 8 days flew by!!! We got started learning the "ways" of Miss Napoli ;) our classroom and school. While I was busy giving the students 1,000,000 assessments, they worked hard all week!

We did a lot to get ready for our phonics instruction! Check out our vowel tents! We use these to practice identifying vowel sounds in real and made-up words just about every day!

We also made up a set of classroom rules based on respect! We brainstormed people and things we should respect at our school in a main idea web (also the target strategy for our reading that week). This is what we came up with:

Pretty awesome, huh!? They had some great ideas!
Next we narrowed it down to the most important ones, and made them fit with R-E-S-P-E-C-T in an acrostic set of rules :) These are posted at the front of our room so we are reminded throughout the day!

We started working on building our stamina for our Daily 5 Rotations this week also! They worked so hard to improve their concentration time every day! (See chart below)! We mastered the first D5 - Read to Self with ease! Check out what we do, why we do it, how we do it, and what we should look like reading to ourselves below: