Monday, May 13th

Today started our second full week of school. We got back into the practice of waking up early to be on the bus by 6:00 a.m. When we got to school the kids played around for a little while and then had their usual Monday morning welcome ceremony. After the ceremony I headed to the class with the first grade where they started off the morning with English class. In English class  the kids first reviewed the animal names, colors, and other items. Then they started to learn their numbers. They copied into their journals numbers one to ten. They then reviewed the numbers, how to spell them, and what letters made up the numbers spelled out. Today was one of the girls birthdays in the 1st grade her name is Heylin. For Heylins birthday the kids sang to her. When they were finished with English the kids started math. Today in math the kids practice addition. For example, they practiced 10+1=11 and 11+1=12 and so on. The kids had to copy the problems down into their journals and then write in the answers. The kids went to recess, brushed their teeth, and then came back and finished their math. When they were done with math they started class using their Spanish books. The lesson in their books was about first names. The assignment was to cut out the picture of the girl and boy and glue them in the right spot and trace their names. While the kids worked on this assignment a story called "Ali Baba" (I think, or something like that) was read to the kids. When the kids finished this assignment they went on to the next two pages which were about capital letters and lower case letters. They did an exercise where they had to trace the letters that were capital in green and the letters that were lower case in read. On the same page there was a second exercise where they looked at pictures that had a word caption and had to color only the pictures that started with an upper case letter. When they all finished with the work in their books we wrote their homework in their journal and they began working on it until the end of the school day. Tommorow we are going to school again and then after school we have to come back to our house because Ms.Edwards has an online interview.