How different it feels to have a 5-day week again after two 4-day weeks! We got to our final two RBLM stations (#7 and #8), introduced typing and sight words on the iPad as two new multi-sensory stations, and talked about bullying because of Pink Shirt Day!
RBLM has 8 stations, and we added #7 – Balance Beam, and #8 – Handy Elbows. Station #7 helps to improve the child’s equilibrium, understand how his/her body moves in space and develop motor control. Station #8 also works on understanding spatial awareness, motor control, and work on their balance/equilibrium. It also strengthens their arms and back muscles. The kids focused hard on these two new stations and performed well! We continue to have the student take turns leading the stretches and it is great to see them in this role. It builds their confidence and public speaking voice, and also reinforces their own learning.
We started two new multi-sensory stations this week – typing our spelling words on keyboards and working on our sight word recognition. Having the students become familiar with the keyboard will help their computer skills, fine motor skills, and eventually enable them to login independently for their phonics programs.
We had a great discussion about what bullying is on Wednesday, Pink Shirt Day. We talked about how it feels to be hurt and to hurt someone, and did an activity with crinkling up a drawing of ourselves. When people do hurtful things, we get crinkled up, and they may say sorry, which helps us un-crinkle, but the effect cannot be completely undone. We then wrote something we can do to be positive people who do not encourage bullying. It was great to see the kids reflect about what has happened to the and how they can move forward to promote acceptance and kindness.
Important Dates!
- Goal-Setting Conferences on Wed March 4th and Thurs March 5th. Please remember to be punctual/available for your in-person or phone conference. Please remember those are early dismissal days at 2pm, so make sure there is someone to pick up your child at the bus stop.
- DR. SEUSS WEEK! Next week is Dr. Seuss Week! The kids have brought up two pieces of paper with information. There is a “peach” coloured one with a hat that lists a different theme for each day. It is optional whether your child would like to participate in the dressing up, but we will have themed activities and spelling words in class. The “red” paper is a March calendar, where if your child chooses to participate, it would be so fun! If they read 5 activities in a row like Bingo, they get a sticker. If they read every day, they get to be on the Wall of Fame in the classroom! It is great to encourage their reading, and Dr. Seuss has lots of word families to practice. *Please check the Extra Extra! page for soft copies of these two sheets.
Have a great weekend!
Take care and take it easy!
Claire 🙂
Teaching TEIR-rific Kids! 