Week of March 17th

Conferences

My first day of student teaching (oh so long ago) it was conferences night. I had only spent one day with the students and my head was spinning with information and a school day worth of experience. I enjoyed sitting in on conferences and meeting some of the parents of these students I have gotten to know so well. 

On March 20th, we had conferences again. Talk about night and day! This night of conferences was such a wonderful experience. I was able to participate in each conference, share my experience and observations of each student as well as meeting more parents. I loved seeing and being able to share with parents the progress each student has made from the beginning of the school year to now. 

St. Patrick’s Day

I gave each student this little note and a stick of gum for St. Patrick’s Day. 

On St. Patrick’s Day, we read stories about leprechauns, learned how the day was originally started, and watched a video on the annual event of coloring the Chicago River green.

Reading

In honor of the first day of Spring, I combined rhyming, word families, and flowers into one reading lesson. Each student was given a flower that had a word ending in the middle. The word endings included -it, -an, -ap, and -at which was in the center of the flower. On each petal around the flower, students wrote a word using the ending they had been given. After all of the petals were filled in, students discovered that all of the words they wrote rhymed!