What a busy 3 days we had last week! We worked on building community and establishing routines for building academics. Here is some language that I hope you will start to hear at home: Talk Moves: "Talk Moves" are how we interact in a discussion and during a lesson. So far, we have learned about whole body listening(minion manners), how to agree and disagree with each other, as well as repeating something important that someone else has said. Talk Moves lay the ground work for individualized, higher level thinking and learning. Best Quality Cookies: Our first "science" experiment was all about what kind of cookies are best. This was to illustrate the expectation of best quality work in the classroom. I put it in during our science time because the activity involved following step by step directions. Ask to see the best quality cookie sign when you come to visit us at Open House. We've also talked about routines for literacy and launched the new
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