Okay so I've got the first week of school under my belt. And I have to say, I am loving my second graders! I just hope they continue this for the rest of the year! I have a feeling I haven't seen the true colors for some yet. But hopefully they will continue to show me such great behavior in the classroom!
I feel a new confidence this year teaching. It is my fifth year teaching and I just feel different as a teacher. I feel more established and ready to take more risks. I am more confident and consistent with my expectations for my students. I guess this is just the new teacher in me!
My students have such different personalities but they all seem to go well together so far. They are so caring and seem to share the same passion towards learning that I do! I can't wait to see what this year brings!
So my past few posts have been about the Daily 5. I started the daily 5 in my class the very first day of school. Right now we are building stamina for read to self. The students are up to almost 10 minutes and are doing so well with it! I'm thinking this week I will introduce work on writing and start building stamina for that! I don't want to rush introducing each daily 5 but I also do want to start guided reading as soon as possible! I know my principal wants me to too! I also started the CAFE in my class too. I am loving that as well. I am finding that my read alouds are so much more meaningful when I have a CAFE strategy that I am focusing on. These two programs (daily 5 and cafe) are really providing great structure to my literacy block in my classroom. I just hope that as my students and I continue on with the daily 5 and cafe, it continues to go so well!
Anyone else just starting with the daily 5 and/or cafe?
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